Note 321 — Chapter II · MORAL INFLUENCE
George Herbert Ely translation
“And you, Madam, if you succumb to the flesh, beat your breast, for you do not shun temptation. Why do you stand at your window? why chat with young men?... Why go to the ball and give yourself to so many idle conversations? Shun temptation, and the devil will leave you in peace. Resist him and he will flee from you!” Woman’s tongue is one of the greatest of the devil’s instruments: “I did that because the devil seduced me:” it is Eve over again: “The serpent beguiled me.” (Baraleta.)