"I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain……" — Leo Tolstoy

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• To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
• When you doubt, abstain. — Ambrose Bierce
• A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. — Ambrose Bierce
• And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from… — Carre Otis
• Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of… — George Washington
• "Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one… — Ayn Rand
• We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no… — John Randolph of Roanoke
• Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for… — Bridget of Sweden
• If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality,… — Seneca the Younger
• Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been… — Henry David Thoreau

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