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chastity
«The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
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«Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.»
«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 ca»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Skepticism
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«Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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chastity, readily, relinquished, skepticism
«The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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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.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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