self-control Quotes

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.