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dissolute

«Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.»
«The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.»
Author: Giambattista Vico | Keywords: benign, crude, dissolute
«Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age»
Author: Andre Gide | About: Youth | Keywords: chaste, dissolute
«SATYR, n. One of the few characters of the Grecian mythology accorded recognition in the Hebrew. (Leviticus, xvii, 7.) The satyr was at first a member of the dissolute community acknowledging a loose allegiance with Dionysius, but underwent many transformations and improvements. Not infrequently he is confounded with the faun, a later and decenter creation of the Romans, who was less like a man and more like a goat.»
«Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.»
«A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi | Keywords: dissolute, echo, surge, surging