Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
MAIMONIDESLose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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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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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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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 is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
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The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both, undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
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Astrology is a sickness, not a science. It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
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Hold firmly to your word.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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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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