It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
MAIMONIDESLose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.
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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
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In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.
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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.
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