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Chaste Quote by Propertius

“Love presses my head with carefully placed feet, wretch that…” quote by Propertius — Download Open image

“Love presses my head with carefully placed feet, wretch that he is, until he has taught me to detest chaste girls, and to live with no counsel.”

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Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty.

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If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt.

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Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.

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Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade

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Fickleness has always befriended the beautiful.

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Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.

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Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger.

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A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.

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Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.

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If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.

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Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among…

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It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter the chaste and pure region of the heart.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

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Manye chapeleyns arn chaste, ac charite is aweye; Are none hardere than hii whan hii ben avaunced: Unkynde to hire kyn and to alle…

William Langland

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Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful…

Feisal Abdul Rauf

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“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they…

Michael Bassey Johnson

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“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.”

Michael Bassey Johnson

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“The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was…

Charles Dickens

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

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The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star.…

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Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They…

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If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

William Shakespeare

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