Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
MAIMONIDESThe 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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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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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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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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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.
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It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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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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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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God cannot be compared to anything.
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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
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