| 1. | Why more abnegation than jealousy, less envy than equanimit. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 2. | Why so soft, so submissive and yielding Why is there so much negation and abnegation in your hearts Why is there so little fate in your look. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3. | The first is the more perfect realization of our own present life the second, the abnegation of it the one, limited by experience, the other, transcending it. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 4. | No previous English version exhibited such abnegation of the translator's own tastes and habits of thought, such reverent desire to present the original in its purest form. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |