“There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted”
James Branch Cabell
“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.”
Tom Wilson
“As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist”
“In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?”
Charles de Gaulle
“We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”
Oscar Wilde
