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Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Daily Quote:
"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile." (Baudrillard, Jean - Smile)

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All that glitters is not gold.
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Browse Quotations about Temptation

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Do you really think, Arthur, 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.
Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
He who is not tempted, what does he know? And he who is not tried, what are the things he knows? [Ecclesiasticus]
How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Thy Word. Thy Word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee. [Psalms 119:9-11]
I can resist everything except temptation.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
It is easier to stay out than get out.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue.
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.
Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

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