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Adultery is the vice of equivocation.
It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together l ...

Alexander Theroux

adultery

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Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differenc ...

Alexander Theroux

imitation | envy | artists

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...he who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself. He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will n ...

unknown author

adultery | jealousy

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I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before ...

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commandments | law, Biblical | law

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Thou shalt not commit adultery.

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adultery

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But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. For out of the heart come evil intentions, murd ...

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speech | sin

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Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, s ...

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divorce | Jesus Christ, teachings of

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Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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adultery | lust

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Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be diss ...

Anatole Broyard

traveling | travelers | tourists and tourism

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The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, whi ...

Anthony Burgess

marriage

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