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Maimonides

30 March 1138-13 December 1204

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Acqusitiveness is a curse. The obsession a man feels to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

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Action is divided as regards its object into four classes... (1) purposeless (2) unimportant (3) vain or (4) good.

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Anonymity is a kind of giving that is the most blessed and most acceptable.

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Astrology is a sickness, not a science... it is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

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A Beginning is not in all things. For that which is without one, a final cause need not be sought.

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The Body is the source of death and all evils, but low as it is in reality, it is also good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of thing, with one thing departing and the other succeeding.

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The Body is the cause of evil in that it make's man subject to genesis and destruction.

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Capital punishment is a form of punishment that risks the worst of injustices. 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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Charity is a kind of giving which never impoverishes the giver.

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Charity is, as the sign of a righteous man, such that we must be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment.

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Charity is at its height when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

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Charity is a kind of giving through which no one is ever impoverished.

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Comparison is an utterly useless analytic method in discussions of God, for God cannot be compared to anything.