When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see … - Maimonides

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work is elevated by our daily environment into something that is appropriately done everywhere and at every conceivable moment.

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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.

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