self-control Quotes

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.