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'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare

Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers

Chinese Proverbs

Good habits result from resisting temptation

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

Henry Louis Mencken

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

William Butler Yeats

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Gerald Jampolsky

Temptation to behave is terrible

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

Bertolt Brecht

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

Catherine the great (1762-1796)

Catherine the Great

Tempt not a desperate man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare

Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure that man needs the help

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

Sam Levenson (1911-1980)

Sam Levenson

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

John Bunyan

There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist

John Lubbock, Sr.

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