From a very early age, girls were taught to restrain themselves physically and emotionally.

It will take time to restore chaos.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men’s natural abilities as to restrain them.

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.