Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.