Maimonides Quotes

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• Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a…
• There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
• All forces that reside in the body are angels.
• For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge...
• Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
• Hold firmly to your word.
• There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of the mother for…
• Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
• 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…
• In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary
• For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them…
• It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
• Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
• Those who are incapable of attaining to supreme religious values include the black coloured people and those who resemble them in their climates. Their nature…
• God who preceded all existence is a refuge...
• It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the…
• In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
• Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure…
• Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
• I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

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