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What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to discourage it completely. – Franklin P. Jones

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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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Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. – Robert Orben

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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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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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