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Temptation Quotes
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
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Oscar Wilde
"I can resist everything except temptation."
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Oscar Wilde
"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
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Mae West
"I can resist everything except temptation"
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Mae West
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder"
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George Washington
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it"
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Thomas Jefferson
"The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in"
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Jocko Willink
"The greatest flaw of humankind is our inability to control our desires."
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Alain de Botton
"The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures"
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Democritus
"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."
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Will Rogers
"The last temptation is the greatest treason to do the right deed for the wrong reason"
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T. S. Eliot
"I am not immortal. Faustus and I never signed a pact but I am damn close"
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Anne Sexton
"It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man"
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Democritus
"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss"
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Democritus
"You know I'm no saint, but I can make you pray"
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Ariana Grande
"Forbid us something, and that thing we desire"
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Geoffrey Chaucer
"Idle hands are the devil's tools"
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Geoffrey Chaucer
"The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man"
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong"
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Prince
"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most "
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William Shakespeare
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