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

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!