“The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people—that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.”
“We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”
“There are only two ways to love—in spite of yourself, and in spite of the restraining order.”
“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.”
“With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.”
“How many things are we upon the brink of discovering if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries”