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

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  Food, Healing, Health

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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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• Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

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  Silence, Silence Is

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

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  Gains, Loses, Falsehood

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• God who preceded all existence is a refuge.

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  Existence, Refuge

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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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• 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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• 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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• At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. Our nature and habit then draw a veil over our perception, and we return to a darkness almost as dense as before. We are like those who, though beholding frequent flashes of lightning, still find themselves in the thickest darkness of the night.

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  Night, Shining, Darkness

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.148, Moses Maimonides

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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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• 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 to a greater extent than his father; for his father gave him life in this world, while his teacher instructs him in wisdom, secures for him life in the world to come.

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  Teacher, Father, Teaching

  Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.69, Behrman House, Inc

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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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• 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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• It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

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  Men, Rewards, Duty

  Moses Maimonides (1961). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.306, Courier Corporation

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