Maimonides Quotes

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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…
• Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
• A truth does not become greater by repetition.
• To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find no other device…
• Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
• Astrology is a disease, not a science.
• The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of…
• I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of…
• All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
• If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness.
• Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except…
• Just as a person is commanded to honor and revere his father, so he is under an obligation to honor and revere his teacher, even…
• What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
• 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…
• The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
• No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
• Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.
• One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed…
• Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

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