Pierre Charron Quotes

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

People who never get carried away should be.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

I wasn't blessed with the natural ability to rein myself in.

I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

I have to rein myself in sometimes.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

I need to rein myself in sometimes.