Speech to the Lautoka Rotary Club (Centenary Dinner), 12 March 2005 http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/printer_4326.shtml.
“Do not indulge yourself in a self-pitying, self-gratifying revenge.”
Nick Drake (poet) (1961) British writer
ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Context: Death makes us strangers to ourselves... Do not indulge yourself in a self-pitying, self-gratifying revenge. More than likely you would simply end up dead as well.
“Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Sometimes quoted with the spelling "forgo", but Bierce used "forego" in his 1911 Collected Works
Epigrams
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Article http://books.google.com/books?id=lHnjAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Remember+that+there+is+always+a+limit+to+self-indulgence+but+none+to+self-restraint+and+let+us+daily+progress+in+that+direction%22 in Young India (2 February 1928, Volume 10, Page 35) <br class="br">Posthumous publications (1950s and later)
“The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.”
Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.
Quintus Curtius Rufus Roman historian
IV, 14, 20.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 113).
Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright
Source: Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966), Ch. I: Dramatis Personae and Other Coincidences.
