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Letter "T" » tempt
«We cannot tempt fate without eventually getting scorched by it»
«Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.»
Author: Julius K. Nyerere
| About:
Nations
| Keywords:
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«People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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«There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.»
Author: William Booth
(Spiritual leader)
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«The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead»
«The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil»
«Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? / But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? / Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.»
«There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.»
Author: Seneca
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applause, assortment, avarice, inducement, inducements, purple, rewards, robe, tempt, varied
«We have the right to believe at our own risk any hypothesis that is live enough to tempt our will.»
«Tempt not a desperate man.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Temptation
| Keywords:
desperate, tempt
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