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Continence Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!
More Continence Quotes
- Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
- I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and… — Gore Vidal
- Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband… — Spencer W. Kimball
- What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider… — John Milton
- Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps. — Amos Bronson Alcott
- Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)! — Saint Augustine
- The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. — Pope John Paul II
- I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking… — Robert A. Heinlein