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«It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.»
«I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.»
Author: Charles de Gaulle | Keywords: resist, tolerate
«It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.»
Author: Epictetus | Keywords: foolish, pleasures, resist, slave, wise to
«It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.»
«I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.»
«I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it»
«It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.»
«I can resist everything except temptation.»
«It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others»
«It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own»

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