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Man Quotes by Maimonides
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible…
- Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain…
- The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and…
- All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as…
- Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
- It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too…
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