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• So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

  Marquis de Sade

  Law, Long, Silence

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

  Anatole France

  Aberration, Literature

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• A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Onions, Literature, Coats

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.476, e-artnow

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• I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.

  Edward Gibbon

  Years, Crowns, Poverty

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.1758, e-artnow

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• Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Science, Vegetarianism

  "The wonder of Chekhov" by James Lasdun, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

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• Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

  George Chapman

  Hatred, Too Much, Doe

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• Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.

  Ovid

  Lost

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• The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.

  Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

  May, Voluptuous, Chaste

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• A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Men, Views, Court

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.91

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• The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

  Joseph Joubert

  Senses, Supreme

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• Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sheep, Thieves, World

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.237

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• The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Lying, Soul, Energy

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Men, Knows

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.320, Courier Corporation

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• The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beauty, Girl, Sweet

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• Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For my part, when I find a man secure of himself and without fear, I give him up for lost. I am less alarmed for one who is tempted and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid occasions. When a person puts himself in an occasion, saying, I shall not fall, it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with great injury to his soul.

  Philip Neri

  Fall, Humility, Men

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• Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.

  Laurence Sterne

  Daughter, Son, Vanity

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• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

  George Santayana

  Long, Lasts, Firsts

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word "is". Literal and symbolic knowledge. The unknowable”

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• Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

  Thomas Paine

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.222, Ravenio Books

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• You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Catholic, Dresses, Purity And Love

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• An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Boast

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

  Alex Comfort

  Inspirational, May, Dignity

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• Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Drinking, Peculiar, Aberration

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• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  Saint Augustine

  Funny, Witty, Philosophical

  Confessions bk. 8, ch. 7 (397 - 398)

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• My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

  William Shakespeare

  Jewels, House, Ancestor

  1604-5 Diana. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 4, sc.2, l.47-50.

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• Chastity - you can carry it too far.

  Mark Twain

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.1087, Jazzybee Verlag

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