Tuesday, March 30, 2010

#89 ascetic

ascetic- a person who practises great self-denial and austerities and abstains from worldly comforts and pleasures, especially for religious reasons; a monk in the early Christian church

- C17 from Greek asketikos, askein- to exercise

- asceticism (noun), ascetically (adverb)

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If a hermit or ascetic lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. ~ Jean Cocteau

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