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

— Honoré de Balzac Father Goriot (1835)

— Je suis tourmenté par de mauvaises idées.
— En quel genre ? Ça se guérit, les idées.
- Comment ?
- En y succombant.

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