Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.
Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.
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