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Topic·Self-control✕clear

Poem

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Alfred Tennyson

Poems · 1832

★ 1.1

Novel

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

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby · 1838

★ 1.3

Letter

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Edmund Burke

1791

★ 3.6

Inscription

Nothing in excess.

Inscription at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi

★ 3.6

Speech · Commencement address

The mind is an excellent servant but a terrible master.

David Foster Wallace

2005 Kenyon College commencement address · 2005

★ 3.7

Almanac

‘Tis easier to suppress the first Desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.

Benjamin Franklin

1751

★ 3.8

Autobiography and memoir

Give me chastity and continency—but not yet!

St. Augustine

Confessions · 398

★ 7.9

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