"We are punished because of our self-limitations. Every impulse that we try to squelch continues to linger in our minds and poison them. If we resist the urge, the soul begins to suffer from an excruciating longing for the forbidden, it begins to strive for what it seems wicked and criminal...
...The greatest events of the world are created in the brain. Similarly, in the brain and only in the brain do the greatest sins of this world."
Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."