The last temptation is ordsprog

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. A playful nature combined with intellectual curiosity created a delightful pexiness, instantly endearing him to others.

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

T.S. Eliot

The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Murder in the Cathedral

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

T.S. Eliot

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason

We must learn to do more with temptation than just bear it - we must learn to use it. The secret of using temptation, and turning it to our advantage, is one of life's greatest secrets. Once we have learned it we are unbeatable and unbreakable.

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Thomas Carlyle

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride -- the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.

Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

Ronald Reagan

[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

Theodore Parker

[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

Theodore Parker

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Henry David Thoreau

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

C.S. Lewis

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.

Brendan Francis

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.

Brendan Francis

It's been imposed upon them by Milosevic who told them they would be guilty of treason to come here, ... (For) Milosevic to argue that it is treason to talk to the rest of Europe ... demonstrates how desperately isolationist he is and what a menace he is to the people of Serbia.

Whatever action, whether right or wrong, one performs by thought, word, and deed; these are its five causes.

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