Quotes About Temperance

Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.

My dad probably gave me the best advice growing up. I think it's really just keeping your cool in situations and learning to balance everything.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Glasses hold liquor, but they never get drunk. Their

and who can be ill natured and bad tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?

knock yourself out...Or rather don't

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. ~ Epictetus

Those who are well constituted in the body endure both heat and cold: and so those who are well constituted in the soul endure both anger and grief and excessive joy and the other affects.

Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.

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

Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee.

Check your passions that you may not be punished by them.

Remember that in life you ought to behave as at a banquet. Suppose that something is carried round and is opposite to you. Stretch out your hand and take a portion with decency. Suppose that it passes by you. Do not detain it. Suppose that it is not yet come to you. Do not send your desire forward to it, but wait till it is opposite to you.

Prefer enduring satisfaction to immediate gratification.

Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try to pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes.

Freedom is not attained through the satisfaction of desires, but through the suppression of desires.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

If you wish to become proficient in the art of living with wisdom, do you think that you can eat and drink to excess?

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend its increase.

Act in this way regarding spouses, children, honors, offices, and wealth, and you will become worthy to feast with the gods. More than this—if you abstain from the rich desserts that come your way, passing them on to others, you will become worthy to rule with the gods. This was the way of Diogenes and Heraclitus, and they are now venerated as divine.

Too little of it is no better than too much

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.