Common Quote by Larry McMurtry

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

— Horace Mann

As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He is not pestered by the banal desires common to all men; he is tempted by the greatest, the most momentous, messianic temptations; they…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

— Horace Mann

No man is an island unto himself.

— John Donne

“The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and proclaims his…

— Dean Koontz

He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

— John Milton

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

— John Donne

“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the…

— Herman Melville

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his…

— John Owen

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

— Henry David Thoreau

The man's (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am; he has just as much reason to fear me, as…

— Herman Melville