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"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."
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"Celibacy sucks, no pun intended."
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"Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards."
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"Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic."
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"Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason."
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"A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty."
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"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."
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"The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?"
God
"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."
Home
"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."
Company
"I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose."
Enthusiasm
"Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to."
Men
"Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves."
Time
"The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies."
Humor
"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit."
Humor
"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."
Abstinence
"Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new."
Books
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