Georges Bernanos
Novelist, Essayist
"Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it."
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Tempted
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William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question."
Byron Katie
Author, Speaker
"I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers."
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"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"
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"When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'"
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"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."
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"If a girl is pretty she will be tempted."
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"People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money."
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"The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted."
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"You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you."
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"When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public."
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"I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them."
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"A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted."
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