Maimonides

Astrology is a disease, not a science.

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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

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God who preceded all existence is a refuge...

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A truth does not become greater by repetition.

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God cannot be compared to anything. Note this.

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Hold firmly to your word.

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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

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

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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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For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge...

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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

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No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

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

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There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true…

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The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and…

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Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be…

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“And so our rabbis decreed that a man should honor his wife more than himself, and love her as much as he…

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There are eight levels of charity… The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent…

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If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these…

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The question, "What is the purpose thereof?" cannot be asked about anything which is not the product of an agent; therefore we…

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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the…

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You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and…

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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and…

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Whatever form it has, it [matter] will be disposed to receive another form; it never leaves off moving and casting off the…

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In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the…

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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does…

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Eliphas never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice, that we do not know all our…

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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able…

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It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a…

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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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It is not unreasonable to assume that the works of God, their existence and preceding non-existence, are the result of His wisdom,…

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