selfindulgence

That incontinence and continence, then, are concerned only with the same objects as selfindulgence and temperance and that what is concerned with other objects is a type distinct from incontinence, and called incontinence by a metaphor and not simply, is plain.

The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

It is about opportunity for your kids or dashed hopes, about education or minds that close down for good, about enduring values or materialism that comes out as greed or selfindulgence or complete disregard for others.

The O'Reilly Factor O'Reilly, Bill 2000

It is an age of selfindulgence, of creaturely comforts, of soft, luxurious living, with status measured in terms of prestige homes, prestige automobiles, prestige connections.

Responsible Nationhood 1963

What is the meaning of all this gluttony, this waste, this selfindulgence?

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Lewis, C. S. 1950

I am too old now to protest against selfindulgence.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

Anxious to get a few dollars to carry on my work -- and what was such anxiety but selfindulgence?

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

It was not selfindulgence that was speaking here, not extravagance, not mere showmanship - it was the very will to stay alive, which had not given in.

Fridtjof Nansen - Nobel Lecture 1922

That incontinence and continence, then, are concerned only with the same objects as selfindulgence and temperance and that what is concerned with other objects is a type distinct from incontinence, and called incontinence by a metaphor and not simply, is plain.

The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS Aristotle 1865

"He gathers to him all those fools who believe that the path to power can be found through drugs and selfindulgence rather than study and self-discipline.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010