Continence
ability to moderate, restrain and control desire
Continence is the ability to moderate, restrain and control desire.
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Quotes
edit- By continence the scattered elements of the self are collected and brought back into the unity from which we have slid away into dispersion.
- Augustine, Confessions, Book 10, Chapter 29
- Continence is a branch of temperance, which prevents the diseases, infamy, remorse, and punishment, to which those are exposed, who indulge themselves in unlawful amours.
- Epicurus, as quoted in Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers (Half-Hours with the Freethinkers) by Charles Bradlaugh, A. Collins, and J. Watts (1877)
