Maimonides Quotes
A truth does not become greater through repetition.
Spain was then controlled in different parts by Christians and Arab Muslims. In Arab oratory repetition then, and even today, is taken as emphasis and intensity o belief and truth. Christian oratory—especially religious rhetoric—also emphasized repetition.
Moses Maimonides, 1135-1204, Spanish Andalusian Physician, Philosopher, Rabbi, and Jewish Theologian, "On the Resurrection of the Dead," Responsa, II
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Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the acronym Rambam, was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. In his time, he was also a preeminent astronomer and physician, serving as the personal physician of Saladin. Born in Córdoba, Almoravid Empire (present-day Spain) on Passover eve, 1138 (or 1135), he worked as a rabbi, physician and philosopher in Morocco and Egypt. He died in Egypt on 12 December 1204, whence his body was taken to the lower Galilee and buried in Tiberias.
