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Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. – Joseph De Maistre

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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. – Frederick W. Faber

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Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs. – Michael Josephson

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He who is not tempted, what does he know? And he who is not tried, what are the things he knows? Ecclesiasticus – Bible

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You oughtnt to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd. – Anthony Hope

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