Abstaining Quotes

• Toda la filosofía se resume en dos palabras: sostener y abstenerse.

  Epictetus

  Philosophy, Lying, Reality

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• 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

  Passion, Abstinence, Excellent

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• Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

  W. C. Fields

  Pockets, Abstinence

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• Abstemio: persona débil que cede a la tentación de negarse un placer.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Motivational, Drinking, Beer

  El Diccionario del Diablo

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• La virtud consiste, no en abstenerse del vicio, sino en no desearlo.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vida, Vicios, Virtud

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). "Las obras completas de George Bernard Shaw: Obras de teatro, novelas, artículos, cartas y ensayos: Pigmalión, La profesión de la señora Warren, Cándida, Las armas y el hombre, El hombre y Supermán, César y Cleopatra, Androcles y el león, Los artículos de guerra del New York Times, Recuerdos de Oscar Wilde y mucho más", p.4489, e-artnow

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• Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

  Herman Wouk

  War, Mind, States

  Herman Wouk (1986). "Vientos de guerra", Pocket

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• If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.

  Plato

  Army, Fighting, Cities

  Plato (2016). “Symposium”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• Me abstengo de romance y la discusión de romance.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Romance, Discussion

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• We think of prices as simply the notation of how much we must pay for things. But the price system accomplishes far more than that. Hundreds of millions of people buying and selling, and abstaining from buying and selling, generate a system of signals - prices to producers and consumers about relative scarcities and demand. Through this system, consumers can convey to producers their subjective priorities and entrepreneurs can invest accordingly.

  Sheldon Richman

  Pensar, Gente, Empresario

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• It was palpable, all that wanting: Mother wanting something more, Dad wanting something more, everyone wanting something more. This wasn't going to do for us fifties girls; we were going to have to change the equation even if it meant . . . abstaining from motherhood, because clearly that was where Mother got caught.

  Anne Taylor Fleming

  Girl, Mother, Dad

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• La ciencia lleva mucho tiempo en el negocio de los valores. A pesar de la creencia generalizada de lo contrario, la validez científica no es el resultado de que los científicos se abstengan de emitir juicios de valor; más bien, la validez científica es el resultado de que los científicos se esfuercen al máximo por valorar principios de razonamiento que vinculen sus creencias a la realidad, mediante cadenas fiables de pruebas y argumentos.

  Sam Harris

  Reality, Objectivity, Best Effort

  "The Moral Landscape". Book by Sam Harris, 2010.

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• I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.

  Matt Roper

  Worst, Ads

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• Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing.

  Julien Benda

  Powerful, War, Mind

  Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

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• Plato dice que el castigo que sufren los sabios que se niegan a tomar parte en el gobierno, es, vivir bajo el gobierno de hombres peores; y el mismo pesar se sugiere a todos los oyentes, como la pena de abstenerse de hablar, - que van a escuchar peores oradores que ellos mismos.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Regret, Plato

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.56, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Hay muchos ojos que pueden detectar y honrar las virtudes prudentes y hogareñas; hay muchos que pueden discernir a Genio en su rastro estrellado, aunque la plebe es incapaz; Pero cuando ese amor que todo lo sufre, que todo lo absorbe, que todo lo aspira, que se ha jurado a sí mismo que será un miserable y también un tonto en este mundo antes que ensuciar sus blancas manos con cualquier complacencia, llega a nuestras calles y casas, sólo los puros y aspirantes pueden conocer su rostro, y el único cumplido que pueden hacerle es poseerlo.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Eye, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth - of carefully respecting the property of others - of scrupulously abstaining from all acts of improvidence which can involve him in distress, and he will just as likely think of rushing into the element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying or cheating or stealing.

  Henry Brougham, 1er Barón Brougham y Vaux

  Engañar, Niños, Mentir

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 295), 1895.

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• Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Perfection, Abstinence, Reason

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• To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is not the art of eluding responsibility; it means acting in compliance with orders received, and therefore finding in one's own mind, by effort and reflection, the possibility to carry out such orders. It also means finding in one's own will the energy to face the risks involved in execution.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Art, Mean, Responsibility

  "Precepts and Judgments". Book by Ferdinand Foch, 1919.

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• By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Goal, Legends

  Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.6, Columbia University Press

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• An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.

  Andrei Tarkovski

  Artist, Needs, Observation

  "Time Within Time: The Diaries 1970-1986". Book by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1989.

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• As for drugs, it annoys me that people think it`s the worst thing in the world compared with, say, not paying your taxes. If you don`t pay tax, you may be stealing from someone who needs an operation. As for me and drugs or alcohol: No thanks, I`m abstaining for a while.

  Lily Allen

  Thinking, People, Alcohol

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• Jesus isn't coming for a church that's gritting her teeth, struggling to stay free from sin, secretly wishing she could indulge in a little immorality but abstaining because of being afraid of getting caught. No, Jesus is coming for a church passionately and utterly devoted to Him-one that is free on the inside.

  Mike Bickle

  Jesus, Motivation, Struggle

  Mike Bickle (1993). “Passion for Jesus”, Charisma House

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• Parafraseado: El camino de al-Junayd incluye entre otras cosas abstenerse constantemente de resistirse a Dios Altísimo en lo que a uno le suceda, sea bueno o malo. . . .

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Als, Way, Whatever Happens

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• La templanza no se refiere a abstenerse, sino a ir hasta el límite correcto y no más allá... Por supuesto, puede ser el deber de un cristiano en particular, o de cualquier cristiano, en un momento determinado, abstenerse de bebidas fuertes, ya sea porque es el tipo de hombre que no puede beber en absoluto sin beber demasiado, o porque quiere dar el dinero a los pobres, o porque está con personas que se inclinan a la embriaguez y no debe alentarlas bebiendo él mismo. Pero de lo que se trata es de que se abstenga, por una buena razón, de algo que no condena y que le gusta ver disfrutar a los demás.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Strong, Drinking

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• La virtud no debe considerarse como mera inocencia o abstención del mal, sino como el ejercicio de nuestras facultades para hacer el bien.

  Joseph Butler

  Light, Innocence, Action

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