To the totality of purposes ...

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
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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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Eliphas never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice, that we do not know all our shortcomings for which we are punished, nor the way how we incur the punishment through them.
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.
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