Quotes from authors passed in 1204
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Maimonides
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
Maimonides
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
Maimonides
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
Maimonides
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
Maimonides
Andrew Lloyd Webber 
Leonard Cohen 
Bjorn Ulvaeus 
Ruby Dee 
Frank Iero 
Alannah Myles 
Margaret O'Brien 
E. B. White Authors that died in 1204