There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity;… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the lips, but… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
That which is produced with intention has passed over from non-existence to existence. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
