Spanish - Philosopher | March 30, 1135 - December 12, 1204
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Maimonides
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
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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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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 the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
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If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
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You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
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