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Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.
Sep 17, 2025
A new study found that students who are taught abstinence end up with better math scores. Of course, if you join the math team, the abstinence takes care of itself.
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.
Abstinence is approved of God.
While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.
Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Abstinence is easier than temperance.
Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.
the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.
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.
Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Abstinence is the surety of temperance.
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
When you're dating, abstinence is a greater expression of love than making love, because you're doing what's best for your beloved, not just what feels good in the moment.
Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.
Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love, an abstinence from physical pleasures is called brahmacharya, and anyone who wishes to be free from sex must develop his capacity to love. Freedom from sex cannot be achieved through supersession. Liberation from sex is only possible through love.