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"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."
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"There's nothing wrong with the fire.. if you don't get too close. - Patch."

"Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it."

"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."

"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."

"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."

"So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosedIn serpent, inmate bad! and toward EveAddressed his way: not with indented wave,Prone on the ground, as since; but on his rear,Circular base of rising folds, that toweredFold above fold, a surging maze! his headCrested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes;With burnished neck of verdant gold, erectAmidst his circling spires, that on the grassFloated redundant: pleasing was his shapeAnd lovely; never since of serpent-kindLovelier."

"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."

"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."
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"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up."


"I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering."


"As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow."


"On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath."


"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved."


"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."
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