David Waterston

“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation resisted”

James Branch Cabell

More:

• James Branch Cabell at Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
• “Repenting Hyperopia: An Analysis of Self-Control Regrets” by Ran Kivetz & Anat Keinan (columbia.edu)
  PDF format document, 36 pages.
  “This article proposes that supposedly farsighted (“hyperopic”) choices of virtue over vice evoke increasing regret over time.”