Quotes About Temperance

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

Temperance is love in training.

I love collections of things, but always in moderation.

It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.

If you can bite, you generally don't have to.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

Ce n'est qu'après de longues années d'épreuves et d'expériences extraordinaires, que Dostoïevski cet influence en art tragique et authentique tempéré par la vie.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Maybe we should assess how well you can keep your mouth shut," Dustpelt snapped.

SUNSTAR Tom with yellow tabby stripes, green eyes, and long fur. Fair minded, even tempered, wise. Held his Clan together through dangerous leaf-bare. Fought to keep Sunningrocks away from RiverClan. Deputies: Tawnyspots, Bluefur (later Bluestar) Apprentice: Lionpaw (Lionheart)

It ain't really Czechoslovakian,' I said, coughing. 'We used to call it the Cheque. Like, you drink it up now, you pay for it later.

I've become immune to desire; I snip the danger of wanting in the bud.

I have never been a foodie and am seldom very hungry.

Passions may do good by chance, but there can be no merit but in the conquest of them.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

I think I showed my restraint by not pulling her hair out by the roots.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake.

Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.

Meditation is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats not at all not for him who is over much addicted to sleep, nor for him who is always awake.