Temptation

What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves

Few man have virtue to withstand the highest bidder

I can resist everything except temptation

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever

The world loves a spice of wickedness

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back