Continence

Continence is the ability to moderate, restrain and control desire.

Quotes

• 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)

See also

• Desire
• Incontinence
• Moderation
• Self-control
• Self discipline
• Temperance