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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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• A truth does not become greater by repetition.

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  Education, Doe, Repetition

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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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• 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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• A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

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  Wise, Kings, Men

  Moses Maimonides (1956). “Moses Maimonides: Rambam”

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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 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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• 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 him. And if something happens to him that is contrary to what he wishes, he makes the trenchant judgement that all that exists is an evil.

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  Views, Evil, Judgement

  Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.301, Behrman House, Inc

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• In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.

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  Finance, Strict, Generous

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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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• When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.

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  Teaching, Men, Intelligent

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

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  Angel, Missions

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• God cannot be compared to anything. Note this.

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  Notes

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.424, Aeterna Press

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• The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

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  Soul, Peculiar, Body

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• Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

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  Giving, Charity

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• Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

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  Inspirational, Life, Charity

  Moses Maimonides (1963). “The Wisdom of Moses Maimonides”

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• No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

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  Inspiring, Food, Mean

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• 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 come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.

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  Religious, Ignorance, Men

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• It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

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  Guilty Person, Innocent, Capital Punishment

  "Sefer Hamitzvot". Book by Maimonides,

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• Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.

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  Kindness, Blessed, Generosity

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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 more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.

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  Found, Cheaper

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.271, Courier Corporation

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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 trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.

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  Teaching, Men, Compassion

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• 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 as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

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  Book, Reading, Men

  Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.465, Behrman House, Inc

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• 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 matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.

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  God, Believe, Blessed

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