#temptation

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. ↗

— John Owen

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We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Virtue is insufficient temptation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. ↗

— Tom Sizemore

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Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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