14 Metaphors for lust

Persons addicted to this lust are like robbers and pirates, who are delighted with spoil and plunder, and not with what is given and justly acquired; and they are like malefactors, who covet what is disallowed and forbidden, and despise what is allowed and granted.

That the lust of fornication is not the lust of adultery, every one sees clearly from common perception.

2. Because the fornicator has a vague and promiscuous regard to the sex, and does not as yet confine his attention to one of the sex; and so long as he is in this state, he is prompted by lust to do what he does; but in proportion as he confines his attention to one of the sex, and loves to conjoin his life with hers, concupiscence becomes a chaste affection, and lust becomes human love.

Lust is a priceless perfume that a man has in a crystal vial, and he is the miser of its fragrance.

" "His lust for gambling was a bottomless quicksand, which no possible amount of winning could ever have satiated.

Unbridled lust, incest, [Greek: paiderastia], and adultery are the favorite motives in them, and few rise above the mephitic atmosphere which breathes from Cephalus and Procris or other stories of crime, like that of Philomela and Procne, which were so popular among Greek and Roman poets, and presumably suited their readers.

Waivé thy lusts, and let thy ghost thee lead, And truth thee shall deliverit is no drede.

FORNICATION means the lust of a grown up man or youth with a woman, a harlot, before marriage; but lust with a woman, not a harlot, that is, with a maiden or with another's wife, is not fornication; with a maiden it is the act of deflowering, and with another's wife it is adultery.

" "Chrysostomus," said Basil, on receiving the report, "lust of power, a fever in youth, is a leprosy in age.

Lust of dominion is a manifestation of the Wish to Live; the priests used their tremendous power for selfish ends.

THAT LUST IS LOVE AND AT THE SAME TIME LOATHING IN REGARD TO THE SEX.

And if you could but see her " "Lust!" "What do you mean by 'lust'?" "Lust is the thing you find where you don't find trust.

The lot of those who have confirmed themselves in the persuasion that the lust of defloration is not an evil of sin, after death is grievous.

THE LUST OF FORNICATION IS GRIEVOUS, SO FAR AS IT LOOKS TO ADULTERY.

14 Metaphors for  lust