Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.
See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.