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"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
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"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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"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
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Personal Development
"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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"To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude."
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"Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rsFeed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels, and whatever thingThe Scyth of Time mows down, devour unspar'd, Till I in Man residing through the Race, His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect, And season him thy last and sweetest prey."
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"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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"Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair."
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"Booze and boys, ain't nothing in the universe that'll make a girl stupid faster."
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"Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop, the gut expanded to take in more and more."
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"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
"To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it."
Resentment
"Custom adapts itself to expediency."
Adaptation
"When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied."
Law
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."
Peace
"Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it."
Thought
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
Law
"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader."
Leadership
"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."
Truth
"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man."
Nature
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