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Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

St. Augustine

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Be warm, but pure; be amorous, but be chaste.

Lord Byron

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

John Donne

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.

Andre Gide

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

Andre Gide

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

William Shakespeare

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Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

- Albert Einstein

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

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Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

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There are times when sorrow seems the only truth.

- Oscar Wilde

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A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.

- Marcel Proust

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