The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
Another occupation might have been better.
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.