From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
I think that the temptation to feel that your entire life has been wasted must be very great for a lot of Cubans.
I think the advice to any investor is try to block out as much macro noise as you can but resist the temptation to think this is a market bottom -- it's a lottery ticket.
It is like a temptation to eat ice cream instead of something that is better for you.
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.
to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.