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

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

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) French novelist, playwright

Le Père Goriot, Part 2 (1835) [tr. Marriage]