Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Temptation

Quotes about: Temptation

• Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either of diverting the company, or of showing your own superiority. You may get the laugh on your side by it for the present; but you will make enemies by it for ever; and even those who laugh with you then, will, upon reflection, fear, and consequently hate you.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Hate, Reflection

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.93, Oxford University Press

• The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Motivation, Temptation, Action

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.628

• I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Temptation, Feelings, Age

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