Quotes About Temptation

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.

With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.

Great success is a great temptation.

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

He must be a vampire.

God won't give the devil the pleasure of receiving a priest.

Ä°stediÄŸin kadar sarhoÅŸ ol; ÅŸaraptan korkanlara yaz?k, çünkü onlar içlerindeki kimi kötü düÅŸünceleri ÅŸarab?n ortaya ç?karaca??ndan korkarlar.

Avoir commis, pour te posséder, rapt, violence et adultère, et, pour te conserver, hésiter devant un nouveau crime ?... perdre mon âme pour si peu ? Satan en rirait ; tu es folle ... Non ... non, tu es à moi comme l'homme est au malheur ....

a no nacer los malos pensamientos de una organización mala también, el crimen repugna a la naturaleza humana. Sin embargo, la civilización nos ha creado necesidades, vicios y falsos apetitos, cuya influencia llega tal vez a ahogar en nosotros los buenos instintos, arrastrándonos al mal.

unless an evil thought is born in a twisted mind, human nature is repelled by crime. However, civilization has given us needs, vices and artificial appetites which sometimes cause us to repress our good instincts and lead us to wrongdoing

Un académicien dirait que les soirées du monde sont des collections de fleurs qui attirent papillons inconstants, abeilles affamées et frelons bourdonnants.

Sainte-Croix, a strange mixture of qualities good and evil, had reached the supreme crisis of his life, when the powers of darkness or of light were to prevail. Maybe, if he had met some angelic soul at this point, he would have been led to God; he encountered a demon, who conducted him to Satan.

Definitivamente el vino es un traidor, que hace ver visiones.

Ivrogne tant que tu le voudras ; tant pis pour ceux qui craignent le vin, c'est qu'ils ont quelque mauvaise pensée qu'ils craignent que le vin ne leur tire du cœur... Tous les méchants sont buveurs d'eau, C'est bien prouvé par le déluge.

Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.' 'The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse.

Ah! ¡Joven! ¡Joven! ¿Algún amorcillo? Os repito que os andéis con tiento; la mujer es, ha sido y será siempre causa de la perdición de los hombres.

Dite all'Angelo che veglierà sulla vostra vita, Morrel, di pregare qualche volta per un uomo che, simile a Satana, per un momento si è creduto simile a Dio e ha riconosciuto, con tutta l'umiltà di un cristiano, che nelle mani di Dio soltanto sta il supremo potere e la infinita sapienza

Woman was created for our ruin, and it is from her that all our miseries come.

el crimen repugna a la naturaleza humana. Sin embargo, la civilización nos ha creado necesidades, vicios y falsos apetitos, cuya influencia llega tal vez a ahogar en nosotros los buenos instintos, arrastrándonos al mal.

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.

The highest places are always slippery: Men's eyes dazzle when they are carried up to them; and falls from them are mortal. Few kings or tyrants, says Juvenal, go down to the grave in peace...