Quotes About Restraint

Self control is all about having a firm hand i.e. self control is strict discipline/control of one's emotions and actions. Are you self controlled or not? If NO then, you've got to strictly discipline/control your emotions/actions. For, you ought to do just that.

Self-discipline is just an ability to say NO/YES when you ought to say it and an attitude of setting boundary on what you dislike. Are you self-disciplined or not?

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense I am afraid to rejoice in it.

Suntem un popor prea bun, prea cumsecade È™i prea aÈ™ezat. Nu pot iubi decât o Românie în delir.

We have the more hold over this world the further we withdraw from it, the less we adhere to it.

in order to dispel any impulse of vengeance once I had endured some affront, I would imagine myself quite still in my grave. And I calmed down at once.

Incapable of getting up, nailed to my bed, I drift with the whims of my memory

L'Incorruttibile, severo nel suo portamento, elegante nel suo vestire, non prese mai parte a una dimostrazione né si confuse mai con i cittadini comuni adottandone lo stile e i simboli.

In an ordinary despotism, the powers of a despot are limited by his bodily capacity, and by the calls of pleasure; he is but one man; there are but twelve hours in his day, and he is not disposed to employ more than a small part in dull business; he keeps the rest for the court, or the harem, or for society.

Probably in most cases the greatest wisdom of a constitutional king would show itself in well-considered inaction.

Space has failed us, and we must be unmeaningly brief.

Most poets must be prohibited; the exercise of the fancy requires watching.

The human body as an obedient coolie, to be fed and hosed down, and given just enough sexual freedom to sedate itself.

Moderation is the key-note of lasting enjoyment.

One of the most important rules of the science of manners is an almost absolute silence in regard to yourself.

Il tempo si allunga e si contrae. Quando si allunga, come una gomma ci imprigiona all'infinito nelle sue braccia. Non lascia liberi così facilmente. Ci troviamo risospinti nel luogo dove eravamo prima, o abbandonati nel buio, dove non si sposta neanche di un secondo, ignorando i nostri sensi tesi e gli occhi serrati.

Being frugal is well and good, but I think it's important to do this kind of thing, maybe, oh, once every six months or so.

These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I am not certain what this cure is meant to mend.

This kind of holy envy comes with its own safeguard. Although I am allowed to admire what is growing in the well-tended fields of my religious neighbors, I am not allowed to pull off the road and help myself. The things I envy have their own terroir, their own long histories of weather and fertilization. They do not exist to serve me, improve me, or profit me.

Although I am allowed to admire what is growing in the well-tended fields of my religious neighbors, I am not allowed to pull off the road and help myself. The things I envy have their own terroir , their own long histories of weather and fertilization. They do not exist to serve me, improve me, or profit me. They have their own dominion.

Kindly keep your emotions for some time when I am not present.

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