#chastity

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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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

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

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The word 'no' is important for maintaining one's chastity, but 'porno' is indispensable. I always keep a dirty magazine tucked in my pants to ward off sexual pressure. ↗

— Benson Bruno

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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing. ↗

— Tacitus

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

— Remy de Gourmont

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Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that the mind is overwhelmed and drowned in body. For the principal attribute of the Gods, without or within us, is mind. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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