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"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
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"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
Friendship
"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
Freedom
"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others."
Religion
"One man with courage is a majority."
Courage
"...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans."
Politics
"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."
Leadership
"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."
Reason
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
Peace
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
Politics
"How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!"
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"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
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"Be confidently assured that any 'gods' that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them."
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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
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"Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end. Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use, but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense. In the state of future perfection, to which we all aspire, there will be pleasure without danger, and security without restraint."
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"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
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"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
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"She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed. Was there no escape""anywhere""for anyone? It was worth murdering a world."
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"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."
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"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."
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