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The practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from worldly pleasures to achieve spiritual purification and union with the divine. It is a fundamental component of monasticism and various mystical traditions.
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anonymous, Konstanz
Diogenes Laertius
Cristoforo Landino
Giacomo Filippo Foresti
Plotinus | Ficino, Marsilio (trans.)
Ephrem the Syrian
David Anhaght (Dawit Anyalt)
Schurman, Anna Maria van
Augurellus, Johannes Aurelius
Carl Gustav Jung
Oengus the Culdee / Whitley Stokes
Helena Blavatsky
Blaise Pascal
Vondel, Joost van den
Gürtler, Nicolaus
Hafiz / Gertrude Bell
Porphyry; August Nauck (ed.)
Lardner, Nathaniel
Arnold, Gottfried
Wolf, Johann Christoph
[Kleuker, Johann Friedrich]
Julianus Apostata
Porphyrius
Iamblichus; Thomas Taylor (trans.)
Blaise Pascal
Ikhwan al-Safa; ed. Friedrich Dieterici
Rudolf Steiner
Ikhwan al-Safa; tr. John T. Platts
Euthymius Zigabenus; Theodoretus
G.R.S. Mead (trans.)
Picard, Bernhard|Herrliberguer, David
Jalal al-Din Rumi / Rosen (trans.)
[Pluquet, François-André-Adrien]
Arnold, Gottfried
Arnold, Gottfried
Giacomo Filippo Foresti
Bacon, Francis
Palladius (ed. Johannes Meursius)
Palladius (ed. Johannes Meursius)
Oengus the Culdee / Whitley Stokes
Plotinus | Ficino, Marsilio (trans.)
Jacobus de Cessolis / Konrad von Ammenhausen
Palladius / Theodoret (tr. Gentianus Hervetus)
Richard F. Burton
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494; Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco
Kabbala Denudata
Lucian of Samosata (trans. H.W. & F.G. Fowler)
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Various Authors
Nicephorus Gregoras
Angelo Poliziano
Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus
Theodore the Studite; Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus
Rudolf Hercher
Joseph Simonius Assemani
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Johann Jakob Brucker
Pistorius Kabbala
Prudentius, Prosper & John Damascene
William of Conches; Marbode of Rennes
Vincent of Beauvais
Desiderius Erasmus
Diogenes Laertius
Augustine of Hippo
Tertullian
Augustine of Hippo
Salvianus
Augustine of Hippo
Synesius; Iamblichus; Proclus; Porphyry; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
John Barclay
Lucian of Samosata
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
Joannes Stobaeus (ed. Augustus Meineke)
Claude de Saumaise
Diogenes Laertius; Ambrogio Traversari (trans.)
Gregory of Nazianzus
Iamblichus; Michael Psellus; Marsilio Ficino
Ambrose of Milan
Cardinal Quignones
Joseph Simonius Assemani
Richard Adelbert Lipsius & Maximilian Bonnet (eds.)
Lucian of Samosata
Hartmann Schedel / Anton Koberger
C.L. Feltoe
Agnes Smith Lewis
Francesco Petrarca (ed. Giuseppe Fracassetti)
Francesco Petrarca (ed. Alexander Fraser Nairn)
Sedulius & Juvencus
Guillaume Bude (printed by Robert Estienne)
Jean-Baptiste van Helmont
Agnes Smith Lewis & Margaret Gibson
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
Heshusius, Anton Günther, 1638-1700; Bohn, Michael
Philo of Alexandria; Sigismundus Gelenius (trans.)
Nehemiah Grew
Maximus the Confessor; ed. F. Oehler
Bacon, Roger
Pierre Gassendi
Honorius of Thebes (attr.)
Anonymous
Abraham ibn Ezra
Ibn al-Farid
Friedrich Nietzsche
Евгений Трубецкой
Hoogstraten, F. van
Schoonebeek, Adriaen
Sa'di of Shiraz
Nizami Ganjavi; trans. James Atkinson
Even Zur, Mosheאבן צור, משה בן יצחק
Shankaracharya (trans. Charles Johnston)
Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi
Nicephorus Blemmydes; ed. August Heisenberg
J. Stevenson
Дмитрий Иванович Писарев
Titus of Bostra
Eusebius of Caesarea
Friedrich Nietzsche
Severus of Antioch
Павел Флоренский
Ghazar Parpetsi (Lazarus of Pharp)
Various
Lev Shestov
Pseudo-Dionysius
Synesius of Cyrene
Pierre Batiffol (ed.)
Sergei Bulgakov; Vasily Zenkovsky; Evgeny Trubetskoy
Bar Hebraeus
Synesius of Cyrene
John Chrysostom
Maximus Confessor
Ephrem the Syrian
Vasily Rozanov
Ptolemy; Euclid; Theodosius
Vasily Rozanov
Eghishe (Elishe)
Robert G. Ingersoll
Lucian of Samosata (trans. H.W. & F.G. Fowler)
Lev Shestov
Sophronios Eustratiades
Mark Lidzbarski (ed./trans.)
Forbes Robinson
Rajendralala Mitra (trans.)
Manmatha Nath Dutt
P'awstos Buzand
Stepanos Taronetsi (Stephen of Taron)
Nerses Shnorhali (Nerses IV the Gracious)
Victor Langlois
Euripides; Sophocles; Aristophanes
Justin Martyr (ed. Robert Estienne)
Mikhail Gershenzon
Nikolai Gogol
Vasily Rozanov
Anonymous
F. Max Müller / V. Fausbøll (trans.)
Philip Schaff (ed.)
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Philo of Alexandria; Hans Leisegang (ed.)
Johann Gottfried Herder
Hesiod; Theognis
Philo of Alexandria; C.E. Richter (ed.)
Philo of Alexandria; C.E. Richter (ed.)
Philo of Alexandria; C.E. Richter (ed.)
Philip Schaff (ed.)
Al-Hallaj; Louis Massignon (trans.)
Eusebius of Caesarea
Georg Zoëga
Clement of Alexandria (ed. Otto Stählin)
William Cureton
Anonymous
Schoonebeek, Adriaen
Manmatha Nath Dutt
al-Samri/al-Sawi al-Isra'ili, Abu Sa'd ibn Abi al-Surur (active 13th century)
Pyotr Lavrov
Фёдор Достоевский
Giacomo Filippo Foresti
Philip Schaff & Henry Wace (eds.)
Augustine of Hippo
Iamblichus; Proclus; Porphyry; trans. Marsilio Ficino
Ephrem the Syrian; ed. Gustav Bickell
Strabo (trans. Horace Leonard Jones)
Plotinus; Maximus of Tyre
Socrates Scholasticus; ed. Robert Hussey
Various (ed. Agnes Smith Lewis)
Aṙakhel Davrižeci
Павел Флоренский
Severus of Antioch
Julius Jolly (trans.)
Karapet, Andrianacʹi
Eugène Burnouf
Vladimir Solovyov
Nikolai Leskov
Hermann Jacobi (trans.)
Solomon of Basra; E.A. Wallis Budge
Georg Bühler (trans.)
Moses de Leon (attributed)
Plutarch; ed. Rudolf Hercher
Diogenes Laertius
Michael Kmosko (ed.)
Prudentius; Dressel, Albert
Farid al-Din Attar; A.J. Arberry (trans.)
Иван Сергеевич Тургенев
Philip Schaff (ed.)
Philip Schaff & Henry Wace (eds.)
Nasir Khusraw
T. W. Rhys Davids (trans.)
Philo of Alexandria; F.C. Conybeare (ed.)
Kirakos Gandzaketsi; Ukhtanes of Edessa
Various Authors
Ludwig Feuerbach
Baocheng (寶成)
Philip Schaff & Henry Wace (eds.)
William Robertson Smith
Philip Schaff (ed.)
Jalal al-Din Rumi / R.A. Nicholson (ed. & trans.)
Фёдор Достоевский
Philip Schaff & Henry Wace (eds.)
Philip Schaff & Henry Wace (eds.)
Ephrem the Syrian
E. A. Wallis Budge
Ephrem the Syrian; Thomas J. Lamy
Tiruvalluvar (ed. Arumuga Navalar, comm. Parimelazagar)
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Karl Jaspers
Nicephorus Blemmydes
Jacob of Sarug; Ephrem; Isaac of Antioch; Severus of Antioch
Bar Hebraeus (Gregory Abulfaraj)
Isaac of Antioch; Theodore of Mopsuestia
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nikolai Berdyaev
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
E. B. Cowell et al. (trans.)
John of Ephesus
Gustav Flügel
E. A. Wallis Budge
Diogenes Laertius
Reitzenstein, Richard
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
Philip Schaff (ed.)
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Catherine Crowe
Demosthenes; Lysias; Synesius
Ephrem the Syrian
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Max Arthur Macauliffe
Nikolai Leskov
Philip Schaff & Henry Wace (eds.)
Tertullian
Methodius; Alexander of Lycopolis; Peter of Alexandria
E. T. C. Werner
Nikolai Leskov
Фёдор Достоевский
Vespasiano da Bisticci
Hermann Jacobi (trans.)
Isaac of Antioch
Pratap Chandra Roy; Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Philip Schaff & Henry Wace (eds.)
Max Weber
John Wycliffe / Forshall & Madden (eds.)
Abu Nasr al-Sarraj; R.A. Nicholson (ed.)
Nikolai Leskov
Paulinus of Nola; Hartel, Wilhelm von
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
Pratap Chandra Roy; Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Ephrem the Syrian; Rabbula of Edessa; Balai
Paul Bedjan (ed.)
Aldus Manutius (editor)
Pratap Chandra Roy; Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Paul Bedjan (ed.)
Фёдор Достоевский
Николай Фёдоров
Llull Ars Brevis
Philip Schaff & Henry Wace (eds.)
Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus
Philip Schaff (ed.)
Vladimir Solovyov
Иван Сергеевич Тургенев
Vladimir Solovyov
E. A. Wallis Budge
Various (Armenian Hagiography)
Augustine; Goldbacher, Alois
Gregory of Nazianzus
Narsai; Alphonse Mingana
Ephrem the Syrian; Thomas J. Lamy
Nerses Shnorhali
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
Various Authors
Aphrahat (ed. Graffin & Parisot)
Eusebius; Socrates Scholasticus; Sozomen; ed. Henricus Valesius; Gulielmus Reading
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
René Graffin
Gregory of Narek
David Friedrich Strauss
Дмитрий Писарев
Ambrose; Petschenig, Michael
Anonymous (ed. Kmosko)
Diogenes Laertius
Константин Николаевич Леонтьев
Cyprian
Alexander Pushkin
Alexei Khomyakov
Isidore of Seville; Arevalo, Faustinus
Arnold, Gottfried
Gregory of Nyssa
Thomas of Marga
Иван Сергеевич Тургенев
Jalal al-Din Rumi / R.A. Nicholson
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
Sahdona (Martyrius)
Philostratus
Vladimir Solovyov
Николай Гоголь
Jacob of Serugh
Jacob of Serugh
Various Armenian Historians
Philostratus
Антон Павлович Чехов
Augustine; Goldbacher, Alois
Jacob of Serugh
Henri II Estienne (ed.)
Isaac of Nineveh; Paul Bedjan
Jacob of Serugh
Konstantin Leontiev
Eusebius (printed by Robert Estienne)
Tiruvalluvar (comm. Parimelazagar & Iramanucakkavirayar)
Cassiodorus; Garetius, Joannes
Paul Bedjan (ed.)
Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин
Ephrem the Syrian
Tertullian
Clement of Alexandria
Grigor Narekatsʿi
Дмитрий Мережковский
Ephrem the Syrian
Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron
Yaḥballāhā III
Nerses Shnorhali
Armeense drukkerij (Gaspar Šēhrimaneanc eu Thadēos Ereuanci Hamazaspean) (Venezia)
Portaleone, Shemuel ben Elishaשמואל בן אלישע שער אריה
Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus
Victor Langlois (ed.)
James Darmesteter
Walter Scott
Various Armenian Ecclesiastics
Jacob Cats
Ausonius
Tiruvalluvar (ed. Mrugesa Mudaliyar, trans. John Lazarus)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Desiderius Erasmus
Paul Bedjan (ed.)
Paul Bedjan (ed.)
Athanasius of Alexandria
René Graffin
Paul Bedjan (ed.)
Augustine; Goldbacher, Alois
Athanasius of Alexandria
Eusebius; Socrates Scholasticus; Sozomen; ed. Henricus Valesius; Gulielmus Reading
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Basil the Great
Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron
Jacob of Serugh
Athanasius of Alexandria
Paul (with patristic commentary)
Jacob of Serugh
Ephrem the Syrian
Theophylactus, of Ochrida, Archbishop of Ochrida, approximately 1050-approximately 1108
Catherine of Siena
Phalaris; Socrates; Pythagoras; Diogenes; Brutus; Apollonius of Tyana et al.
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
Pratap Chandra Roy; Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Eusebius of Caesarea
Eusebius of Caesarea / Rufinus
Ephrem the Syrian
Schoonebeek, Adriaen
R.H. Charles
Monier Monier-Williams
Heinrich Ritter & Ludwig Preller
Eznik of Koghb
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Anonymous; Hugh of Fouilloy
Johannes Tauler
Julius Wellhausen
George Cedrenus
Pierre Le Loyer
Diogenes Laertius
Edmond Doutté
Pratap Chandra Roy; Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Pierre Bayle
Acosta, José de
Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Theron Q. Dumont (William Walker Atkinson)
E. A. Wallis Budge
Evelyn Underhill
Edward William Lane
Anonymous (Byzantine)
Ikhwan al-Safa; tr. John Dowson
Eliphas Lévi
Arthur Schopenhauer
Robert Burton
W.J. Wilkins
Philoxenus of Mabbug; E.A. Wallis Budge
Anonymous
Zakariyya al-Qazvini
Clement of Alexandria
Carl Bezold
Iamblichus; M.T. Kiessling (ed.)
Itlīdī, Muḥammad Diyāb, active 17th century (الاتليدي، محمد دياب )
Clement of Alexandria
Constantin von Tischendorf (ed.)
Manmatha Nath Dutt
Socrates Scholasticus (trans. Philo of Tirak)
Isidore of Pelusium
Ralph T.H. Griffith
Nemichandra (trans. Sarat Chandra Ghoshal)
Ephrem the Syrian
Athanasius Kircher
Prafulla Chandra Ray
Prafulla Chandra Ray
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; Gianfrancesco Pico
John Chrysostom
Bhūdeb Mukharjī (Mookerji)
Haris Candra Kaviratna (ed.)
Pythagoras
Regnault-Warin, Jean-Jospeh
Eugène Burnouf
Ferdinand Justi
T. Chandrasekharan (ed.)
Boulanger, Nicolas Antoine
Semler, Johann Salomo
[Besold, Christoph]
Benckendorff, Heinrich
Dupuy, Pierre|Guertler, Nicolaus
[Guillemain de Saint-Victor, Louis]
[Andreae, Johann Valentin]
Gichtel, Johann Georg|Graber, Johann Georg
Scheffer, Johannes
La Croix, Jean-François de
Holstein, Lucas
Athanasius of Alexandria
Tennhardt, Johann
Vyasa (ed. Venkateshwar Steam Press)
Arnold, Gottfried
Gürtler, Nicolaus
Bessarion, Johannes|Aristotle|Theophrastus
[Poiret, Pierre]|Bourignon, Antoinette
Raynaud, Théophile
Reitz, Johann Heinrich
Tritheim, Johann
Jacques-Paul Migne
Arnold, Gottfried
Drechsel, Jeremias
Gregory of Nazianzus
Jacob of Serugh
Abu Nasr al-Sarraj; R.A. Nicholson (ed.)
Steuco, Agostino
Pratap Chandra Roy; Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Julianus Apostata|Libanius
Arnold, Gottfried
Pratap Chandra Roy; Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Paul Bedjan (ed.)
Apuleius
Eusebius; Socrates Scholasticus; Sozomen; ed. Henricus Valesius; Gulielmus Reading
Claude de Saumaise
Paul Bedjan (ed.)
Waite, Arthur Edward
Aldus Manutius (editor)
Eugène Burnouf
Sedulius & Juvencus
Juan de la Cruz
Epiphanius
Rauwolf, Leonhard, -1596
Karapet, Andrianacʹi
Cunha, Nuno da
al-Samri/al-Sawi al-Isra'ili, Abu Sa'd ibn Abi al-Surur (active 13th century)
Arnold, Gottfried
Ptolemy; Euclid; Theodosius
Gregory of Nazianzus
Al-Hallaj; Louis Massignon (trans.)
P'awstos Buzand
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; Gianfrancesco Pico
Steuco, Agostino
Narsai; Alphonse Mingana
Bhūdeb Mukharjī (Mookerji)
Ephrem the Syrian; Thomas J. Lamy
Bar Hebraeus (Gregory Abulfaraj)
Rudolf Hercher
Johann Jakob Brucker
Hilary of Poitiers
Isaac of Nineveh; Paul Bedjan
Prafulla Chandra Ray
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
Bernard de Montfaucon
La Croix, Jean-François de
Anonymous; Hugh of Fouilloy
Photius I, Patriarch of Constantinople
John Philoponus
Clement of Alexandria
anonymous, Konstanz
Philo of Alexandria; Turnebe; Hoeschel (eds.)
James Darmesteter
Gregory of Nyssa
Jacob of Serugh
Nicephorus Blemmydes
Nicephorus Blemmydes; ed. August Heisenberg
Erasmus of Rotterdam & Thomas More
Philo of Alexandria; Sigismundus Gelenius (trans.)
Philo of Alexandria; Hans Leisegang (ed.)
Pierre Gassendi
Hilko Wiardo Schomerus
Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus
Desiderius Erasmus
Victor Langlois
Nasir Khusraw
Ambrose of Milan
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
Reitzenstein, Richard
Eusebius of Caesarea
Jacob of Serugh
Jacob of Serugh
Justin Martyr (ed. Robert Estienne)
Basil the Great
Athanasius of Alexandria
Eusebius; Socrates Scholasticus; Sozomen; ed. Henricus Valesius; Gulielmus Reading
Grigor Narekatsʿi
Cassiodorus; Garetius, Joannes
Philoxenus of Mabbug (ed. Vaschalde)
Jacob Cats
Iamblichus / Hermes Trismegistus / Porphyry
Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus
Palladius (ed. Johannes Meursius)
Agnes Smith Lewis
Prudentius, Prosper & John Damascene
Diogenes Laertius
Psellus, Michael; Zigavēnos, Euthymios, approximately 1050-approximately 1118 or 1120; Eugenikos, Markos, Saint, approximately 1392-1445?; Leo VI, Emperor of the East, 866-912; Monk Mathusalem; Lucaris, Cyril, 1572-1638; Hieromonk Metrophanes; Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604; Anonymous; Basileios Megalometos; Job Jasites, -approximately 1280; Gennadius II, Patriarch of Constantinople, approximately 1405-approximately 1472; Christodoulos; Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, -373; Karampelas, Panagiotes Ch.; Brutus, pseudo
George Pachymeres; ed. Immanuel Bekker
Anonymous
Jacques-Paul Migne
Charles Schmidt
Constantin von Tischendorf (ed.)
Gregory Nazianzen
Hartmann Schedel / Anton Koberger
Hellwig, Christoph von
Richard Adelbert Lipsius & Maximilian Bonnet (eds.)