I can resist anything but temptation.

About Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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The needs of society determine its ethics.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

As one reads history… one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

—Lane Olinghouse

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

—George Bernard Shaw

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

Good habits result from resisting temptation.

—Ancient Proverb

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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

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