Things forbidden
have a secrete charm.
-Tacitus
Not fiend constant
more than temptation
-The Oculatum
You don't have to take everything that is offered.
As a matter of fact, you had better not.
-Harry A. Wilmer
If you don't take hostile bait,
you can be straight as an arrow.
-Harry A. Wilmer
Temptations come, as a general rule,
when they are sought.
-Margaret Oliphant
For every man there exists a bait
which he cannot resist swallowing.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Better shun the bait
than struggle in the snare.
-John Dryden
The most effective defense against temptation is this:
Shut your eyes.
-Solomon Ibn Gabirol
If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation,
what you are really doing
is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.
-Gary Zukav
'Tis one thing to be tempted,
another thing to fall.
-William Shakespeare
No temptation can ever be measured
by the value of its object.
-Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
The biggest human temptation is...
to settle for too little.
-Thomas Merton
The last temptation is the greatest treason:
to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
-T. S. Eliot
Good habits
grow of temptations denied
-The Ocualtum
We gain the strength
of the temptation we resist.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every moment of resistance to temptation
is a victory.
-Frederick Faber
I never resist temptation because I have found
that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
-George Bernard Shaw
Abstinence is as easy to me
as temperance would be difficult.
-Samuel Johnson
No man is matriculated to the art of life
till he has been well tempted.
-George Eliot
The limits of our grace
are those of our temptations.
-Francois Fenelon
Temptation is the re-emergence of the old pattern
which presents itself repeatedly
until a decision is finalized and resolved.
-David R. Hawkins
which presents itself repeatedly
until a decision is finalized and resolved.
-David R. Hawkins
