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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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"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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"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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"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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"Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards."
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"There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others."
Man
"When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."
Life
"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
"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
"The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies."
Humor
"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
"Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy."
Wisdom
"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."
Books
"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
"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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