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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. – Thomas Jefferson

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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. – Thomas Jefferson

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And so, Reader, (for it is time to have done with guessing) would I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. – Oscar Wilde

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Serving one’s own passions is the greatest slavery. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia

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