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"We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched."
Wealth
"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again."
Battle
"No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor."
Ability
"When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied."
Law
"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable."
Adversity
"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all."
Crime
"Custom adapts itself to expediency."
Adaptation
"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."
Virtue
"Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards."
Chance
"Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it."
Thought
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"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
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Personal Development
"Be confidently assured that any 'gods' that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them."
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Personal Development
"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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Personal Development
"Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end. Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use, but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense. In the state of future perfection, to which we all aspire, there will be pleasure without danger, and security without restraint."
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"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
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Personal Development
"She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed. Was there no escape""anywhere""for anyone? It was worth murdering a world."
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Personal Development
"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."
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Personal Development
"She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell.Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it.And it's delicious."
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"The word lust can mean "selfish desire". . . .It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay."
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"I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them."
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