self-control Quotes

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Beware the hobby that eats.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.