The Sage Pelimo had the habit to say every day: "An arrow in Satan's eye," mocking the temptations of the evil inclination.
One day, it was the eve of Yom Kippur, and Satan appeared to him disguised as a pauper who came and called him to the door, requesting alms. Pelimo brought out bread to him. Satan said to him: "On a day like today, everyone is inside eating, and shall I stand outside and eat?" Pelimo brought him inside and gave him bread. He said to him: "On a day like today, everyone is sitting at the table, and shall I sit by myself?"
They brought him and sat him at the table. He was sitting and his body became covered with boils and sores, and they were discharging pus upon him, and he was doing repulsive things at the table [e.g., picking at the sores]. Pelimo said to him: "Sit nicely!"
Satan then said to him: "Give me a drink." They gave him a drink. He coughed up his phlegm and spat it into the cup. They berated him for acting this way, at which point Satan fell down dead.
They heard people around them saying:" Pelimo killed a man! Pelimo killed a man!" Pelimo fled and hid himself in a latrine. Satan followed him. [Pelimo] fell down before him. When Satan saw how much Pelimo was suffering, he revealed himself to him. Satan said to him: "Why do you speak thus?" Pelimo replied: How then should I speak?" Satan said to him: "My Master should say: "Let the Merciful One rebuke the Satan."
Rav Ḥisda said: The fact that I am superior to my colleagues is because I married at the age of sixteen, and if I would have married at the age of fourteen, I would say to the Satan: An arrow in your eye, i.e., I would not be afraid of the evil inclination at all.
(יד) וַיָּ֨קֶם יהוה שָׂטָן֙ לִשְׁלֹמֹ֔ה אֵ֖ת הֲדַ֣ד הָאֲדֹמִ֑י...
(14) So the LORD raised up an adversary against Solomon...
...as Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish said, and it was also taught in the name of Rabbi Yosei: Do not open your mouth to the Satan, i.e., do not provoke Satan with overconfident or hubristic utterances.
(א) עֲקַבְיָא בֶן מַהֲלַלְאֵל אוֹמֵר, הִסְתַּכֵּל בִּשְׁלשָׁה דְבָרִים וְאִי אַתָּה בָא לִידֵי עֲבֵרָה. דַּע מֵאַיִן בָּאתָ, וּלְאָן אַתָּה הוֹלֵךְ, וְלִפְנֵי מִי אַתָּה עָתִיד לִתֵּן דִּין וְחֶשְׁבּוֹן. מֵאַיִן בָּאתָ, מִטִּפָּה סְרוּחָה, וּלְאָן אַתָּה הוֹלֵךְ, לִמְקוֹם עָפָר רִמָּה וְתוֹלֵעָה. וְלִפְנֵי מִי אַתָּה עָתִיד לִתֵּן דִּין וְחֶשְׁבּוֹן, לִפְנֵי מֶלֶךְ מַלְכֵי הַמְּלָכִים הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא:
(1) Akabyah ben Mahalalel said: mark well three things and you will not come to know sin: Know from where you come, and where you are going, and before whom you are destined to give an account and reckoning. From where do you come? From a putrid drop. Where are you going? To a place of dust, of worms and of maggots. Before whom are you destined to give an account and reckoning? Before the King of the kings of kings, the Holy One of blessing.