Oscar Wilde. The Picture Of Dorian Gray (№ 832)

...the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. By the end of this tragic relic of those savage times when people hurt yourself, Mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. And having sinned, man is freed from the desire to sin, because the implementation is the path to purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. And if you dare to fight with him, the soul will torment the attraction to the forbidden, and you exhaust the desires that monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. Someone said that the greatest event in the world - those that occur in the brain. And I say, that the great sins of the world are born in the brain and in your brain.