Tempted Fate will leave the loftiest star. [ Byron ]

I have been tempted by opportunity, and seconded by accident. [ Marmontel ]

It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. [ Balzac ]

He that is busy is tempted but by one devil, he that is idle by a legion. [ Proverb ]

Some oblige as others insult. One is tempted to ask reparation of them for their services. [ Napoleon I ]

When we read that the lost sheep is preferred to the rest of the flock, we are tempted to think that penitence is preferable to innocence.

As to pay, sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. [ George Washington ]

Persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul, wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

When we think of the tenderness, of the solicitude, of the protection, of the grace, of the charm, of the happiness, or at least of the consolation that woman brings to the life of man, one is tempted to speak to her only with uncovered head, and bowed knee. [ L. Desnoyers ]