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Friedrich Nietzsche

is at root an abstention from everything but abstention.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

is easy... the challenge is to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. (St Augustine)

is pitiable, for When a sober person wakes up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

is so excellent a thing that one should totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

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.Mark Twain

is epicurianism - the very perfection of reason - when it is practiced so as really to enjoy.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

is the strangest of all the sexual aberrations.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. Anatole France

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