Tissot Quotes

What would you like to do with it?’ he pressed. Grace thought a moment. ‘Live, Monsieur Tissot. I’d like to live in great comfort. And peace.’ And then she added, quite to her surprise, ‘With no one to tell me what to do or how to do it.’ He

These observations explain how the young woman, with whom David slept, gave him strength; how this same thing has succeeded with other old men to whom it has been advised; and why this weakens the young person who looses it without receiving any thing in exchange, or rather who receives the weak, corrupted and putrid exhalations which are so injurious. A person perspires more during coition than at any other time, because the power of the circulation is quickened. This perspiration is perhaps more active and more volatile than at any other time: it is a real loss, and occurs whenever emissions of semen take place, from whatever cause, since it depends on the agitation attending it. In coition it is reciprocal, and the one inspires, what the other expires.

Alma desalentada: lo que alegra al enemigo no son tanto vuestras faltas como el abatimiento y la desconfianza en la misericordia divina que os producen. «Este es, dice el P. de la Colombiére, éste es el mayor mal que puede sobrevenir a una criatura.

«En resumen, no os enfadéis, o por lo menos, no os turbéis porque os habéis turbado, no os alteréis porque os habéis alterado, no os inquietéis porque esas molestas pasiones os han inquietado; tomad vuestro corazón y ponedlo suavemente en manos de nuestro Señor (Carta a una señora, 833). Haced que vuestro corazón vuelva a estar en paz con vos misma, aunque estéis tan llena de miserias» (Carta 186).

Este es el pensamiento de San Francisco de Sales: «Benditas imperfecciones, que nos hacen reconocer nuestra miseria, nos ejercitan la humildad, en el desprecio de nosotros mismos, en la paciencia y en la diligencia» (Carta 811).

Nadie podrá contar jamás las almas que la Madre de Dios ha devuelto a la vida divina. Para esto habría que enumerar todas las conversiones. No hay una sola que no se haya llevado a cabo sin su concurso maternal. Es imposible, dice San Ignacio Mártir, que se salve un pecador si no es por el auxilio de María.

Donde empiezan la inquietud y la perturbación, la tristeza buena deja el lugar a la mala.

Por eso el demonio hace grandes esfuerzos para producir en nosotros esa mala tristeza y, para conseguir desalentar al alma y desesperarla, intenta antes que nada perturbarla.

Por eso recomienda tanto la calma y la paciencia, en primer lugar consigo mismo. «Guardaos de las precipitaciones y de las inquietudes, porque no hay nada que nos estorbe más para caminar en la perfección» (Carta a Santa Chantal, 57, colec. Blaise).

Before leaving the subject of food, we might mention the advice of Horace: it is not to make mixtures.   —————Nam variæ res Ut noceant homini, credas, memor illius escæ; Quæ simplex olim tibi sederit; at simul assis Miscueris elixa, simul conchylia turdis, Dulcia se in bilem vertent, stomachoque tumultum Lenta feret pituita.

but there are books which without demanding the attention very much, and without bringing to mind dangerous images, agreeably distract them, and prevent the terrible dangers of ennui.

We have mentioned before, Aretæus’ description of it. “How can one be otherwise than weak,” says he, “when the strength of life is constantly discharged? It is the semen alone which renders a man strong.

It is on this principle that Venette, in a work where we find a well written chapter on the dangers of an excessive indulgence in the pleasures of sexual intercourse, states that connection with a beautiful female exhausts less, than with an ugly one.

What milk deserves the preference? To answer this question, we shall not examine the different kinds of milk: it would extend our work too much; at present, only that of the woman, the ass, the goat, and the cow, are employed. Each has its different qualities, and the choice of one of them must be determined by the comparison of those qualities, and the indications presented by the disease. There are but few cases where that of the cow is not preferable to all others. That of the woman is generally considered the most strengthening by the most celebrated physicians, but this opinion rests on a wrong foundation, viz. the use of meat; they not considering at the same time, that of a robust peasant girl is preferred who eats but very little of it, and lives on bread and vegetables.

The patient was cured of this shameful disease in a month, and I advised him to abstain from this horrid vice, and to think of the Eternal's threat, who excludes all such from the Kingdom of Heaven.42

But it has one peculiar inconvenience, it must be drawn from the nipple. Galen knew the necessity of this, since he advises those who cannot submit to it, to go like asses to asses' milk. But would not this excite those desires which ought to be forgotten? And would not this expose one to see renewed the adventure of the prince, whose history has been related by Capivaccio? He was supplied with two nurses, and their milk produced so good an effect, that he left them in a condition to furnish fresh milk after a few months, if this was needed.

But where is the onanist who dares avow his infamy? And is not this concealment of crime a proof of guilt? How many have died for not daring to reveal the cause of their disease? In how many letters in the work, Onania do we find this expression: “I had rather die than see you after this confession.” One is in fact, and should be more ready to excuse him who, seduced by that propensity engraved by nature on all hearts, and which is designed to perpetuate the species, is wrong only in not keeping within the bounds prescribed by the law and by health. It is when a man is actuated by passions that he forgets himself, and we are much more ready to forgive him, than one who sins against every law, the opinions of men, and the order of nature. Knowing how much he must be degraded in society should it be known, he is constantly tormented by the idea. “It seems,” says one of these criminals to me in the same letter we have quoted above, “as if every one reads in my countenance the infamous cause of my disease, and this thought unfits me for society.” They become sad and melancholy, (instances of this have been shown in the fourth section of this work,) and are affected by all the evils produced by their long continuance, without having, which is frightful to a criminal, any pretense of justification or one consoling reflection.

We may mention in the first class, the pollutions of those who having had frequent emissions, suddenly suspend them: this was the case with a widow-woman mentioned by Galen; she had been a widow for a long time, and the retention of the semen, caused a disease of the uterus; in sleep she had convulsive motions in her loins, arms, and legs, which were attended with an abundant discharge of thick semen, with the same sensation as in coition.

I will mention an instance where masturbation was fatal, and which has been mentioned by Fabricius of Hilden. Cosmers Sotan had amputated a young man's hand, which had been injured by a gun; as he knew him to be very ardent, he prohibited his indulgence with his wife, when also he warned him of the danger. But when all the symptoms were relieved, and the cure was progressing, the patient feeling desires to which his wife not respond, he had an emission of semen without coition, which was immediately followed with fever, delirium, convulsions, and other violent symptoms, which caused death in four hours.

When the patient is found in this condition,” says he, “use fomentations to the whole body, then give an emetic, and after it, a cathartic to purge the head, and after this another to purge the lower parts. It is particularly necessary to commence this cure in the spring. After the purgatives give a little whey or asses milk; then cow's milk for forty days. During the use of the milk no animal food should be taken, but at night it may be thickened with barley-flour. Having finished the use of the milk, some of the most tender meats may be allowed, commencing with a very small quantity and gradually increasing it. The patient should avoid for one year all debauchery, all acts of venery and other immoderate exercise; his walks should be so directed as to avoid the cold and the sun.

had the misfortune, like many other young men, to be addicted to this habit, so destructive both to the body and mind. Age, instructed by reason, restrained for some time, this criminal indulgence, but it was too late. The extraordinary nervous sensibility and the symptoms it occasions are constantly attended by a feebleness, malaise, weariness and distress. There is a constant discharge of semen; the countenance is cadaverous, pale and leaden. My very great debility renders the performance of every motion difficult, that of my legs is often so great, that I can scarcely stand erect, and I fear to leave my chamber. Digestion is so imperfect, that the food passes the bowels unchanged, three or four hours after it has been taken into the stomach. I am oppressed with phlegm, the presence of which causes pain, and the expectoration, exhaustion. This is a brief history of my miseries which are increased by the painful reflection, that each day brings with it an increase of all my woes. Nor do I believe that any human creature ever suffered more. Without a special interposition of Divine Providence, I cannot support so painful an existence.” I read with astonishment in the letter of another patient, these words of shocking import, and which brought to mind those mentioned in Onania. “Were I not restrained by sentiments of religion, I should ere this have put an end to my existence, which is the more insupportable, as it is caused by myself.

description of the danger, when one is addicted to this vice, is perhaps the most powerful motive for arresting it. It is a frightful picture, and makes one shudder. Let us mention its principal characters. A general wasting of the animal machine, a debility of all the bodily senses, and of all the faculties of the mind: the loss of the imagination, and of the memory: imbecility, the shame and the disgrace attendant upon it, all the functions disturbed, suspended, or painful, long, severe, and disgusting diseases, the pain sharper and constantly recurring: all the diseases of old age in the period of vigor: an inaptitude for all the occupations for which man was born, the humiliating thought of being only a useless weight on the earth, the mortifications to which he is daily exposed: the disgust for all honorable pleasures; weariness, an aversion for others and for himself; horror of life, and the dread of some day committing suicide, anguish of mind worse than the pains, and remorse worse than the anguish, which increases daily, and doubtless assumes new power, when the soul is enfeebled only by attachment to the body, will serve perhaps for eternal punishment, and unquenchable fire. This is a sketch of the fate reserved for those, who act as if they did not fear it.

«Sois un poco demasiado severa con  esa pobre joven. No hay necesidad de reprenderla tanto, pues tiene buenos deseos. Decidle que por mucho que tropiece no se asombre ni se impaciente consigo misma; que vuelva su mirada hacia nuestro Señor, que desde el Cielo la ve como un padre a una hija que, todavía débil, está empezando a dar los primeros pasos, y le dice: «Despacio, hija mía». Y si cae la anima: «Te has caído, pero no importa, no llores», se acerca y le   tiende la mano. Si esa joven es una niña en humildad, y sabe que es una niña, no se asombrará de caer y no caerá de tan alto» (Carta a la Madre Angélica Arnaud, 534). El

Para combatir con mayor eficacia el desasosiego que es tan perjudicial, San Francisco de Sales procura descubrir cuál es la causa ordinaria, por no decir única, de esta falta de paz. Es el amor propio, el buscarse a sí mismo.

Federico Ozanan añade: «Hay dos clases de orgullo: el que está contento de sí mismo, que es el más corriente y el menos peligroso; y el que está descontento de sí, porque esperaba mucho de él mismo y se ha visto defraudado en su esperanza.

Live, Monsieur Tissot. I’d like to live in great comfort. And peace.’ And then she added, quite to her surprise, ‘With no one to tell me what to do or how to do it.