I can resist anything except temptation. -- Oscar Wilde

Temptation is the desire to fall, to fail, to faint and to squander all one's reserves until there is no firm ground beneath
one's feet. -- Georges Bataille

Leonardo da Vinci said: when a man with a joyous thrill is waiting for a new day, new spring, new year, he doesn’t suspect that, in this case, in essence, he desires his own death. Though, this aphorism of Leonardo da Vinci in its form of expression is not grotesque, the spirit of carnival lies at its base. -- Mikhail Bakhtin