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Quote by Oscar Wilde
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I te

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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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. – Oscar Wilde

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I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works. – Oscar Wilde

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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. – Oscar Wilde

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

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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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The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again. – Korman’s Law

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Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. – Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 19

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