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Everyone is morally miserable, we are never supermen and we cannot be gods with accumulation. No-one is born to get all his desires. Those who give goods to others receive goodness, and vice versa. It is better to be modest with others, as we cannot live in isolation.
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Sem Tob, Op. Cit., 285.
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Mt. XXII, 39, Mc. XII, 31 and Lk. X, 27, although there are several references in many places, e.g. doing good but not expecting anything in Exchange, love even for enemies etc.
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Sem Tob, Op. Cit., 286–292.
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Genesis, III, 5.
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See Sem Tob, Op. Cit., 293.
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See the meaning of the translation into Hebrew in Ecclesiastes, 2, 18, as seen in Sanfor Shepard, Shem Tov. His world and his words, Miami, Ediciones Universal, 1978, p. 59.
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Sem Tob, Op. Cit., 294–297.
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Ibidem, 298–301.
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Ibidem, 302–303.
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Ibidem, 304.
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Ibidem, 305–306.
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Ibidem, 308.
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Ibidem, 309.
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Ibidem, 310.
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Ibidem, 311–313.
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Mt. VII, 15–20.
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Galán Díez, I. (2017). IX: Human Misery and Being Giving. In: The Birth of Thought in the Spanish Language. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 127. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50977-8_21
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