Quotes About Temperance

Live in the flesh but not according to the flesh.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

I've never been drunk in my life. I don't use recreational drugs.

I've been drunk maybe five times in my life. I don't like to lose control very much.

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.

We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

The fruit of the Spirit is love." Mark the words,—love, not hatred; it is joy, not discontent and mourning; peace, not irritation, anxiety and manufactured trials. It is "long-suffering gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."…

Balance in everything secures and preserves you and others too; indeed, it also smooths life.

Ride upon your anger, never let anger, ride upon your senses.

Tokichiro replied very seriously, "I like both women and sake. Everything in the world is good. But if you're not careful, even good things can turn against you.

Fasting may not be as easy as feasting, but after a while it is not too different. Both are extremes. It is not hard to go the extreme way, but what is really difficult is neither to fast nor to feast, but to be moderate in everything we do.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

On the question of speaking, Stoics and Buddhists are at one. In Epictetus' words: 'Be mostly silent, or speak merely when necessary, and in few words. We may enter sparingly into conversation sometimes, when the occasion calls for it; but not about any of the common subjects, such as gladiators, or horse races, or athletic champions, or food, or drink – the vulgar topics of conversation; and especially not about individuals, either to blame, or praise, or make comparisons.

A person who does think of his brain can't drink liquor or wine, feels often pain in life and remains away from women.

He who lets WWW i.e Women, Wine, Wealth to occupy his mind-space loses own common sense. We can find such man's reference in the history in abundance.

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

Sit not down to the table before thy stomach is empty, and rise before thou hast filled it.

Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.

It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way - that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it