self-control Quotes

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.