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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. – Buddha

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I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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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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