4 Metaphors for ascetic

"The ascetic is the serpent of his age" is a saying put into his mouth.

Ha! so, after all, I have found my treasure, and that excellent ascetic was a true prophet.

We insist that the ascetics were pessimists because they gave up threescore years and ten for an eternity of happiness.

The portrait frescoes are from the Villa Pandolfini (previously Carducci), and among them are Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Dantewho is here rather less ascetic than usualnone of whom the painter could have seen.

4 Metaphors for  ascetic