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Letter "P" » procreation
«Of children as of procreation-the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.»
«Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.»
Author: St. Francis de Sales
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«The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.»
«Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.»
«The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
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Sculptor)
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The Faces,
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«Whether these matters are to be regarded as sport, or as earnest, we must not forget that this pleasure is held to have been granted by nature to male and female when conjoined for the work of procreation; the crime of male with male, or female with»