Quotes About Temptation

It's easy to do what is not good And things that harm oneself. It's very difficult to do Things beneficial and good.

There have been many times when I, like many other speculators, have not had the patience to await the sure thing. I wanted to have an interest at all times. You may say, "With all your experience, why did you allow yourself to do so?" The answer to that is that I am human and subject to human weakness. —Jesse Livermore, How to Trade in Stocks

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

Tu t'efforces d'alimenter la passion charnelle et ruses pour grappiller quelque argent, alors que tu oublies l'obscurité qui t'entourera dans ton tombeau et ne songes pas à ce qui t'adviendra ensuite.

and no illustration of the disastrous effects of reckless indulgence in intoxicating liquors appeals to an audience with such telling force as that of the once sober and well-conducted female yielding by degrees to the terrible temptation until she at length sinks to the condition of a gin-soddened poor wretch, lost to every glimmer of self-respect, and capable even of starving herself and her children rather than forego her only remaining enjoyment in life ... It

I quickly dressed in my shorts and a t-shirt, before my lazy side could convince me if God wanted us to exercise, He wouldn't have invented the Lifetime Channel.

It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.

A constructed situation is the room with the spider and the moonlight between the branches exactly in the moment when -- in answer to the demon's question: "Do you desire this once more innumerable times more?" -- it is said: "Yes, I do.

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La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.

Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.

TristeÈ›ii fizice È™i absolute a dup?-amiezilor din timpul s?rb?torilor de iarn? i-au urmat întrebarea asupra r?ului È™i binelui existenÈ›ei, iar spirirtul spunea nu la orice promisiune, orice vis mincinos, orice pl?cere fals? È™i sufla peste cele din urm? farmece, ca vântul de la miezul nopÈ›ii peste ultimele pâlpâiri ale unor lumân?ri muribunde.

M? zb?team împotriva ispitelor unei mediocrit??i necesare, încercam s? creez în jurul meu o singur?tate nemiloas? a spiritului, dac? nu a trupului; luptam cu mine însumi, m? pedepseam, m? obiÈ™nuiam cu suferinÈ›ele, în vederea unor încerc?ri apropiate È™i cumplite.

La moneda, junto con la suciedad de las manos que la han asido y palpado, lleva consigo el contagio inexorable del crimen. Entre todas las cosas inmundas que el hombre ha manufacturado para ensuciar la tierra y ensuciarse él mismo, quizá sea la moneda la más inmunda de todas

Como todos os deicidas, o Cientista é, na sua essência, tentador. Adula no homem a sua própria soberba, e domina-o prometendo-lhe a dominação.

Allorquando uno di quei piccoli , o più debole, o più incauto, o più egoista degli altri, volle staccarsi dal gruppo per vaghezza dell'ignoto o per brama di meglio, o per curiosità di conoscere il mondo, il mondo da pesce vorace com'è, se lo ingoiò, e i suoi più prossimi con lui.

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

Temptation's less about wearing someone down with repetition than it is about finding the right phrase and dropping it in at the right time.

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

The key to evil? Freedom. The key to freedom? Money. For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do . . .

She revisited sex now as a ruined project she couldn't entirely give up on.