“[Success as panacea and trap:] The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he’ll be trapped into becoming a success object.”

— Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 134.

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Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960)

“Sex was a trap, a snare. It was for animals.”

Charles Bukowski book Pulp

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“The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (1866)

“Trapped like a trap in a trap”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

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“When a man’s success becomes commonplace to him, it is his success no longer.”

Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 104

“It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.”

Samuel Adams (1722–1803) American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher

"Loyalty and Sedition," essay published in The Advertiser (1748) http://thingsabove.freerovin.com/samadams.htm, later printed in The Life and Public Service of Samuel Adams, Volume 1 (1865), by William Vincent Wells