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We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

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

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.