We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.
Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of the mother for the young are not produced by reasoning, but by feeling, and this faculty exists not only in humans but in most living beings.
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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.
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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.
A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
God cannot be compared to anything. Note this.
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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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