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"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."
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"Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future."
"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
"Discipline is needed in our temperance."
"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess."
"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
"This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess."
"I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them."
"As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers."
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."
"This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of all the earth."
"People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking of becoming converted."
"Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them."
"If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy."
"All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."
"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."
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