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To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.


Maimonides


#belong #depreciation #desires #far #law

There are several reasons to oppose tax increases. First, every dollar of tax increase is a dollar you didn't get in spending restraint. Two, if you walk into the Democrats' Andrews-Air-Force-Base, Lucy-with-the-Football trick for the third time in a row - they don't have have a saying for being fooled three times!


Grover Norquist


#democrats #dollar #every #first #fooled

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.


Marquis de Sade


#appetite #drinking #eating #false #false modesty

...we see this tendency to throw off restraints in life, in art - it's an inglorious gesture of thumbing the nose - it makes me laugh...


John Geddes


#free-spirited #restraints #art

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!


Louis-Ferdinand Celine


#deserve #die #front #going #hell

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.


Woodrow Wilson


#aloud #crisis #every #friend #life

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.


Lee H. Hamilton


#antagonize #cannot #global #great #learn

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.


Cedric Hardwicke


#happen #love #love scene #might #must

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.


Muhammad Iqbal


#evolution #only #preliminary #self-restraint #sexual

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.


Michel de Montaigne


#find #i #less #lust #many






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