Quotes About Restraint

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

I had come in stages to a different belief about how one should be in this life. I now felt convinced that the greater part of a man's duty consists in abstaining from much that he is in the habit of consuming.

You can ask for things, but you can't just reach out and take things as if it's your right." A

It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

Il più certo modo di celare agli altri i confini del proprio sapere, è di non trapassarli.

I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

A soul that is unbound is as mad as one with cemented borders.

Even the best cellmate on earth cannot change the fact that you are in prison.

Aveva urlato. E aveva sbagliato a farlo. Il disprezzo che provava per quell'uomo non doveva essere manifestato con un ruggito. Doveva essere espresso con il sibilo del serpente. E serpente divenne.

but I beseech you, as most I may, that you inflict not on her those pangs which you inflicted whilere on her who was sometime yours; for methinketh she might scarce avail to endure them, both because she is younger and because she hath been delicately reared, whereas the other had been in continual fatigues from a little child.

The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast [...]

Potencia equivale a esclavitud.

When God gives you an inch, don't take a mile.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Plus I think it would be good for men to know they have limits.

Let us speak no more of faith in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of cryptography.

Don't make a story go stale by telling it to all your friends before your write it.

Real and solid happiness springs from moderation.

Mistrust all those in whom the desire to punish is imperative - Goethe

When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves.