To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.Maimonides
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You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
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No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
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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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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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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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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 things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
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Abandonment,
Belong,
Depreciation,
Desires,
Far,
Law,
Perfect,
Possible,
Purposes,
Restraint,
Totality
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