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When a person wants nothing, it's evil to tempt them with something. — Marty Rubin

Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned. — Empedocles

When a man wants nothing, it's evil to tempt him with something. — Marty Rubin

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. — Thomas Malthus

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. — William Shakespeare

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil. — Solomon Northup

James 1:13 specifically says that God tempts no one. God may test, but He never tempts to evil. A test is for growth; temptation is toward evil. Not — R.C. Sproul

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. — George Eliot

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction. — Thomas Brooks

Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal. — Maxwell Bodenheim

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation. — Hannah Arendt

Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious — John Owen

In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things. — Khushwant Singh

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. — William Penn

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Could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed? Glaucon — Steven D. Levitt

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!' — Bret Harte

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher

Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one. — Frederica Mathewes-Green

With Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred. — Melika Dannese Lux

A thought enters; we pamper it; it germinates and grows into an evil act. — Billy Graham

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight. — Elias Canetti

Your level is above the reach of the devil ... Keep it in mind; as long as you are in the light of God, you bind him (the devil) tight! — Israelmore Ayivor

Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill. — Saint John Chrysostom

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. — Mae West

I have great, fond memories of Canada. I feel that one day my bones will more than likely end up there. — Aden Young

Dare to believe in your sacred dreams — Lailah Gifty Akita

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. — Terry Pratchett

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry. — John Herschel

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy. — Samuel Johnson

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil — Mark Twain