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Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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.
Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.
The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.
Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
When I claim chastity, that's when the fantasy is most vibrant.
Chastity is curable, if detected early.
Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.
There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.
A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
Give me chastity and constancy, but not yet." St. Augustine. "Amen" Odette
A secret and ardent stirring within the frozen chastity of the universal.
If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.
In normal circumstances a lovely young woman alone would have thought of nothing else; the whole edifice of female government is based on that foundation stone; chastity is their jewel, their centrepiece, which they run mad to protect, and die when ravished of.
But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.
What can chastity or purity even mean, once you have smiled at sodomy?
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?
To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.
Modesty is invisibility ... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be ... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.
Honor modesty more than your life.
a little modesty averts disgrace
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
When people want to insult a man, they cast slurs upon his courage. But the worst they can say about a woman is to impugn her chastity.
In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.
Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean.
For everyone, whatever his state
single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all if she is not free to decide for herself, in private, what to do with her body.
He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.
The only really indecent people are the chaste.
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have ...
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
Third, as the ladies have clearly mastered the female art of chastity, our masculine inability to control our urges rather weakens our claims to be the stronger sex.
Chaste is she whom no one has asked.
Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.
Modesty is a state of the heart. It veils the tongue. It clothes us in good manners. It envelops us with the best of behaviour.
Modesty's for folk with nothing to boast of.
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.
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.
Modesty is Invisibility
Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.
Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.
There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Almost every one of the great religions of the world has made special provisions for them, and the woman who has preferred a celibate to a domestic life has been able to occupy a position of honor and usefulness.
Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond. As we make sex less secretive, we may rob it of its power to hold men and women together.
I adhere to the law of chastity because I don't believe in pushing women. That's what it means to be a man. I don't hurt others simply to make myself feel superior. Gossip can ruin a woman as surely as unchaste behavior. True men don't indulge in either. We don't need to.
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.
Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the outlook of men and the state of the world have undergone such profound changes.
Chaste with a chance of inveterate lust.
Modesty needs to come from the heart.
Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.
Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
Keep your heart with a chaste mind
Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.
The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is more generally accorded where it does not exist, nor more frequently disallowed where it prevails.
Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.
There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.
The feminine body is expected to be flesh, but discreetly so;
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
What do you think dignity's all about?'
The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.
To defile yourself, yet not really be defiled - that's true purity. If you're fastidious about defilement, you're not going to do anything. You'll never become a real man,
Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
Restraint: not just for sex anymore.
The pleasing punishment that women bare....
False modesty is better than none.
The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man who has succeeded in getting the love of a chaste wife has succeeded in his religion and has all the virtues.
O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!
For want of modesty is want of sense.
Avoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty.
It was not by mere coincidence that sex so disturbed us for thousands of years: repressive religious dictates and social taboos grew out of aspects of our nature that cannot now just be wished away.
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Of lies, false modesty is the most decent.
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont.
Sex - the poor man's polo.
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.
We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.
Modesty is the key to success
Modesty of a way of living,
makes it worth while.
Petra Hermans
Modesty is becoming in youth.
We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.
Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
God tells me to cover myself, to hide my beauty and to tell the world that I'm not here to please men with my body; I'm here to please God. God elevates the dignity of a woman's body by commanding that it be respected and covered, shown only to the deserving - only to the man I marry.
Women have routinely been punished and intimidated for attempting that most simple of freedoms, taking a walk, because their walking and indeed their very beings have been construed as inevitably, continually sexual in those societies concerned with controlling women's sexuality.
When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord, make me chaste,' his heart had been secretly adding, 'But please don't do it just yet.
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.