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Not by wearing saffron cloth, not by restricting food and other
sense activities, not by living in the forest, not by discussing
philosophy, and not by observing a vow of silence, but only by even
the slightest beginning of devotional service to the lotus feet of
Lord Govinda, who enjoys pastimes on the Yamunä’s wide banks,
is Kämadeva stopped. (Çré Rüpa Gosvämé’s Padyävalé)

The brahmacäré should completely renounce the following
eight things—his lust, anger, greed, desire for sweets, sense of
decorating the body, excessive curiosity (interest in mundane
things), excessive sleep, and excessive endeavor for bodily
maintenance. (Néti-çästra 11.10)

One single object (a woman) appears in three different ways:
to the man who practices austerity it appears as a corpse, to the
sensual it appears as a woman, and to the dogs as a lump of flesh.
(Néti-çästra 14.15)

Women completely destroy spiritual life. (Çréla
Prabhodänanda Sarasvaté)

Quod omne animal post coitum triste est.
Every animal is sad after sex. (Aristoteles)

Love, in the form in which it exists in society, is nothing but the
exchange of two fantasies and the superficial contact of two bodies.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort (1741-1794)

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.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62), U.S. philosopher, author,
naturalist. Walden, “Higher Laws” (1854).