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Temptation Quotes

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