"The greatest evil that can befall men is that they should consider themselves as perfect."

"The greatest good is the knowledge of God. The greatest evil is the ignorance of God."

"A person should study the written Torah first, and then read this [book], and thereby know the entire oral Torah, so that he will not need to read any other book in between them."

"Maimonides goes so far as to say that the get is still valid even if the court must force him with lashes until he says he is prepared to give the get."

"if the woman claims she cannot live with her husband and have intimate relations with him because he is disgusting or loathsome to her, her claim is accepted without question and a divorce is immediat…"