Showing posts with label Temptation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Temptation. Show all posts

Honesty, Dutch proverb


An open box tempts an honest man.

- Dutch proverb

열린 상자는 정직한 이를 유혹한다.

- 네덜란드속담

The Temptation of Jesus, Gospel of Luke


The Temptation of Jesus.

When the devil had finished every temptation, he departed from him for a time.

+ Gospel of Luke 4,13

악마는 모든 유혹을 끝내고 다음 기회를 노리며 그분에게서 물러갔다.

+ 루카가 전한 거룩한 복음 4,13

http://www.usccb.org/bible/luke/4

Temptation, Robert Burton

I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together.

- Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 3. Subsect, XIII.


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Temptation, Al Gore

Our founders were insightful students of human nature. They feared the abuse of power because they understood that every human being has not only "better angels" in his nature, but also an innate vulnerability to temptation — especially the temptation to abuse power over others.

- Al Gore, Address at New York University (25 May 2004) Full text online


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