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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.
Joseph De Maistre
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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch
Robert Orben
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
W N Taylor
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T S Eliot
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Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
Robert Browning
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Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Anonymous
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