The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. The Picture of Dorian Gray

For after death, as they say, the genius of each individual, to whom he belonged in life, leads him to a certain place in which the dead are gathered together for judgment, whence they go into the world below, following the guide who is appointed to conduct them from this world to the other; and when they have there received their due and remained their time, another guide brings them back again after many revolutions of ages. The Trials Of Socrates

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you. Book VII

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Never Give In!