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• The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth… — Jeremy Bentham
• Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again… — Swami Vivekananda
• Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with… — Agnes Repplier
• We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up… — Thomas Merton
• If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in… — Florence Nightingale
• The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become… — Thomas Merton
• Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course,… — Rudolf Rocker
• The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no… — Rod Dreher
• Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
• They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality… — Katherine Anne Porter

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