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| I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. (Antonio Porchia) | [▲] | [▼] |
| All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. (Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. (Norman Vincent Peale) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. (Pietro Aretino) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. (Lane Olinghouse) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. (Buddha) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. (Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray) | [▲] | [▼] |
| What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely. (Franklin P. Jones) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. (Oscar Wilde) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. (Mick Jagger) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength. (François, duc de La Rochefoucauld) | [▲] | [▼] |
| For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. (Friedrich Nietzsche) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition. (Martin H. Fischer) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Go ahead and squander your chi. But I guarantee you heaven isn't in Miss March's pussy.... Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you're sitting on the couch and you get up and make a triple-decker sandwich. It's on the other side of that, when you don't make the sandwich. It's about sacrifice.... It's about giving up the things that basically keep you from feeling. That's what I believe, anyway. I'm always asking, "What am I going to give up next?" Because I want to feel. (Jim Carrey) | [▲] | [▼] |
| An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. (Vida D. Scudder) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. (J. Petit-Senn) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them. (Antonio Porchia, Voces) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again. (Korman's Law) | [▲] | [▼] |
| There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object. (Charlotte Dacre, The Passions) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. (Robert Orben) | [▲] | [▼] |