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"Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet."
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"To live long it is necessary to live slowly."

"Discipline is needed in our temperance."

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."

"I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them."

"Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem."

"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."

"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."

"I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds."

"The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity."
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"There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own."


"Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good."


"Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good?"


"Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?"


"The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king."
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