Dynamics
Intemperance is the plague of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning. (Montaigne)
The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste. (André Gide)
People who lack a coarse streak, I have discovered, almost always possess a cruel one. (Louis Kronenberger)
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. (Anatole France)
Give me chastity and continence, but not just now. (St Augustine)
The only chaste woman is the one who has not been asked. (Spanish proverb)
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