Maimonides Quotes

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• We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.

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  Ignorant, Path, Responsible

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• Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

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  Wisdom, Truth, Doe

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• Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

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  Enemy, Converting

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• Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.

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  Men, Views, Evil

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• 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 do the same with his pen.

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  Liars, Lying, Book

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• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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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 upon others.

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  Men, Eight, Hands

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• You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

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  Apology, Reality, Accepting

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• Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

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  Men, Honor, Add

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• Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

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  Food, Healing, Health

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• Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

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  Silence, Silence Is

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• The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

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  Health, Nursing, Medicine

  Moses Maimonides, Jacob Israel Dienstag (1994). “Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma”

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• 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 the young are not produced by reasoning, but by feeling, and this faculty exists not only in humans but in most living beings.

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  Mother, Pain, Philosophical

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• Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.

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  Gains, Loses, Falsehood

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• The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

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  Self Esteem, Decisions You Make, Risk

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• In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

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  Unnecessary, Realms

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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 is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain, - only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil. ...This class of evil originates in man's vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.

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  Drinking, Men, Class

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.12, 1190.

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• It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.

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  Food, Wine, Light

  Moses Maimonides (2014). “The Preservation of Youth: Essays on Health”, p.12, Open Road Media

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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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  Mean, Language, Should

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• The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end.

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  Strong, Numbers, Soul

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.270, Courier Corporation

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• The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.

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  Goal, Good Health, Persons

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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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  Kindness, Inspiration, Men

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• 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 have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.

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  Nature, Philosophical, Animal

  Moses Maimonides (2010). “The Guide of the Perplexed”, p.452, University of Chicago Press

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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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  Dog, Doe, Alive

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