Maimonides

A truth does not become greater by repetition.

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God who preceded all existence is a refuge...

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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

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Astrology is a disease, not a science.

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Hear the truth from whomever says it

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All forces that reside in the body are angels.

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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.

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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

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It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

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Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.

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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.

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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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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.

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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…

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It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.

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Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that…

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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…

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Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives…

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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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Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.

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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…

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He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously…

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To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find…

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At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. Our nature and habit then draw a…

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When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine…

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It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established…

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The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this…

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Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing…

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There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of…

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Galen , in the third section of his book, "The Use of the Limbs," says correctly that it would be in vain…

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When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of…

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The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition.…

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“Whoever rebukes his fellow man, whether concerning matters between the two of them or between him [the fellow man] and God, needs…

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I find it expressed in various passages of Scripture that the fact that God knows things while in a state of possibility,…

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The Mutakallemim... apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of…

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The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and…

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An ignorant man believes that the whole universe only exists for him: as if nothing else required any consideration. If, therefore, anything…

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