Abstinence Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstinence Abuse Excess Use
Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sexual abstinence limits the impact of irrational passions on the mind, thus liberating it for love of genuine goodness and truth... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted. — Aristippus Copy Share Image
Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate. — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
When a married person uses pornography, or is unfaithful, it compromises not just his (or her) purity, but also compromises the spouse's purity. As… — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Look, choosing to wait until marriage makes me feel empowered. But if the same choice cripples you, then it wasn't the right one.” — Rachael Allen Copy Share Image
Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them.… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence. — Isuna Hasekura Copy Share Image
I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right thing to… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
How do we want our air? Pure. How do we want our water? Pure. How do we want sex on our wedding night? Pure. — Molly Kelly Copy Share Image
“There’s gratification in abstaining from the easy choice. Instant gratification can bring more suffering than pleasure. If I do the hard thing, the next… — Cecily Wang Copy Share Image
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