A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant country, and there he squandered his property in di...ssolute living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I begin to find out that nothing but virtue will do in this damned world. I am tolerably sick of vice which I have tried in its ag...reeable varieties, and mean on my return to cut all my dissolute acquaintance and leave off wine and "carnal company," and betake myself to politics and Decorum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He remembered the dissolute adventures in which his senses, his nervous system and his mind had indulged; he saw himself corroded ...by irony and intellect, laid waste and paralyzed by insight, almost exhausted by the fevers and chills of creation, helplessly and contritely tossed to and fro between gross extremes, between saintly austerity and lust--oversophisticated and impoverished, worn out by cold, rare artificial ecstasies, lost, ravaged, racked and sick--and he sobbed with remorse and nostalgia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow d...issolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault,... Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »