Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
MAIMONIDESThe more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
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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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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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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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For it is said, You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him, that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no longer fall upon the mercy of the community or be in need.
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The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.
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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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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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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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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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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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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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Astrology is a disease, not a science. It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.
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The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
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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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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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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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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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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Lose 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 the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.
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Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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