Quotes About Temperance

Virtue lies in moderation

To feel or act towards the right person to the right extent at the right time for the right reason in the right way - is not easy, and it is not everyone that can do it, hence to do these things well is a rare, laudable and fine achievement.

Une chose, quand elle n'est pas excessive, est un bien ; du moment qu'elle est plus grande qu'il ne faut, elle devient un mal.

I having stated in a former part of this treatise that men should choose the mean instead of either the excess or defect, and that the mean is according to the dictates of Right Reason;

El que se deja llevar de la cólera en ocasiones dadas contra los que lo merezcan, haciéndolo además de la manera, en el momento, y durante todo el tiempo que convenga, debe merecer nuestra aprobación. Esta es, sépase bien, la verdadera mansedumbre, si la mansedumbre es digna de elogios.

Save for the occasional use of cocaine he had no vices

Olgunluk, doyumu erteleyebilme kabiliyetidir.

Nothing could exceed his energy when the working fit was upon him: but now and again a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting- room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night. On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.

OK.Now, I may be engaged, but I'm not going to get carried away.

No one with any sense of self-control.

The most powerful man in nothing without self-control and mental discipline.

Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

Do not become a slave to sin.

Patience is to wait for the ice to melt instead of breaking it.

HOBBES:Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked.

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.

Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity:She that has that, is clad in complete steel.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

When you have nothing to say, one of your alternatives is to keep your trap shut.

There is a god somewhere that is angry because we're combining stuff like Cutty Sark with fifty-year-old Laphroaig

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Talk low, Talk slow, and Don't say too much.