Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Temptation

  • The Greatest Temptation

    Resist it.

  • Tempted?

    Indulgence weakens; resistance strengthens.

  • Temptation

    A striking one or two sentence formulation taken from a wider context is not an aphorism, strictly speaking.  But I'm in a loose and liberal mood.  So I present for your consideration and delectation the following sentence from Paul Ludwig Landsberg (1901-1944).  It is from his essay "The Moral Problem of Suicide," translated from the French by…