“I am tormented by temptations."
"What kind? There is a cure for temptation."
"What?"
"Yielding to it.”

— Honoré de Balzac, book Le Pere Goriot

Je suis tourmenté par de mauvaises idées.
— En quel genre? Ça se guérit, les idées.
- Comment?
- En y succombant.
Part II.
Le Père Goriot (1835)

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