I'm afraid I succumbed to temptation and had a piece of cheesecake.
I finally surrendered to temptation, and ate the last remaining chocolate.
It's very easy to yield to temptation and spend too much money.
The temptation is to take more food than you need.
Thus, vicarious reward creates an incentive to help the people whose experiences you choose as occasions for emotion, and to resist temptations to exploit them.
Make up your mind that whatever the short-term temptations may be, you will never deviate from the highest standards of honour.
Because the temptations and dangers would be minor, the process of soul-making would be gentler and slower.
Without the protection offered by college walls and communal discipline, how would scholars withstand temptations and distractions and devote themselves to higher things?
