75. The fact is that insofar as someone refrains from adultery, so far he loves marriage, or to say the equivalent, insofar as someone refrains from the lasciviousness of adultery, so far he loves the chasteness of marriage, and the reason is that the lasciviousness of adultery and the chasteness of marriage are two opposites. Consequently, the more a person refrains from one, the more he comes into the other. The case is precisely as stated in no. 70 above.


