seduce

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To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.

Specifically, to induce to surrender chastity; to debauch by means of solicitation.

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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. Emil Cioran

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce. Benoît Mandelbrot

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. Franz Kafka

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. Jean-Paul Sartre

An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action. Vladimir Lenin

I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal. Omar Sharif

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