Temptation Quotes

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.[Ça se guérit, les idées. Comment? En y succombant.]

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.[Há momentos em que as tribulações surgem nas nossas vidas, e não podemos evitálas. Mas surgiram ali por algum motivo. Só quando as ultrapassamos, entendemos porque estavam ali.]

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

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

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don’t know won’t tempt you, Aunt Lydia used to say.

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

Do you really think that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.