Maimonides
A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.Collection: Wise
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.Collection: Goal
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.Collection: Night
God cannot be compared to anything. Note this.Collection: Notes
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.Collection: Kindness
Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.Collection: Astrology
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.Collection: Found
A truth does not become greater by repetition.Collection: Education
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.Collection: Existence
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.Collection: Teaching
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.Collection: Guilty Person
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.Collection: Strong
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.Collection: Giving
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.Collection: Angel
He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.Collection: Dog
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.Collection: Nature
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessaryCollection: Unnecessary
A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.Collection: Food
What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.Collection: Mean
It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Soul
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.Collection: Teaching
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.Collection: Teacher
Hold firmly to your word.Collection: Honesty
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.Collection: Learning
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.Collection: God
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!Collection: Evil
It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.Collection: Men
He who immerses himself in sexual intercourse will be assailed by premature aging, his strength will wane, his eyes will weaken, and a bad odour will emit from his mouth and his armpits, his teeth will fall out and many other maladies will afflict him.Collection: Fall
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.Collection: Heart
Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .Collection: Knitting
That which is produced with intention has passed over from non-existence to existence.Collection: Intention
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.Collection: Gratitude
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother's love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.Collection: Mother
Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.Collection: Purpose
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.Collection: Problem
Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Book
The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition. Such are the extreme Turks that wander about in the north, the Kushites who live in the south, and those in our country who are like these. I consider these as irrational beings, and not as human beings; they are below mankind, but above monkeys, since they have the form and shape of man, and a mental faculty above that of the monkey.Collection: Country
You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and treated all individual beings of the same species with perfect equality. ...for it is an act of great and perfect goodness that He gave us existence; and the creation of the controlling faculty in animals is a proof of His mercy towards them, as has been shown by us.Collection: Animal
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.Collection: Fitness
In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.Collection: Soul
The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.Collection: Passion
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good .Collection: Class
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.Collection: Eye
It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.Collection: Men
God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.Collection: May
We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.Collection: Men
Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.Collection: Breathing Space