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Temptation Quotes

"I am not immortal. Faustus and I never signed a pact but I am damn close"

"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."

"The greatest flaw of humankind is our inability to control our desires."

"The last temptation is the greatest treason to do the right deed for the wrong reason"

"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss"

"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."

"Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure"

"The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief"

"There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues."

"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."

"The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak"

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it"

"Forbid us something, and that thing we desire"

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