self-control Quotes

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

You will go most safely in the middle.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.