#temptation

"There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation."

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

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."

"Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance."

"Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day,"Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies."

"Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't."

"Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you."

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

"God tests, but he does not tempt."

"I can resist anything except temptation."

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

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

"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?"