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“If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.”

Ifs May Eye Earth Wish Pleasure Garden Fruit Curiosity Possession Appearance Temptation Curse Realms Pluck Glisten

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.”

Pleasure Tree Wind Weak Overcoming Blow Senses Temptation Enjoyment Idle

Author:Gautama Buddha

“There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.”

Men May Sometimes Interest Pleasure Honest Honesty Fame Protect Highest Safety Casts Profit Obligation Cards Temptation Being Honest Ease Horns Altars

Author:Owen Feltham

“Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.”

Pleasure Ignorance Vices Temptation

Book:The romance of the forest, by the authoress of 'A Sicilian romance'.

Source: The romance of the forest, by the authoress of 'A Sicilian romance'.

“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.”

“Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.”

House Voice Pleasure Doors Temptation Loud Loud Voices

Book:Gulistan or Rose Garden

Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden