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"We never repent of having eaten too little."
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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."
"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."
"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."
"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."
"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."
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"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other."
"Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste."
"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital."
"Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take."
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