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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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"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."
"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."
"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."
"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
"I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time."
"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."
"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."
"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."
"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."
"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."
"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute."
"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."
"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."
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