Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
You have to gather your energy together. . . conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.
Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.
We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".
Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue of lust and it is the curse of every town in America.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation
Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices
I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.
At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?
