Quotes About Temperance

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.

Some men are so well-tempered they can lose it every day and never run out.

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

I so much despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme.

Pacience is an heigh vertu, certeyn.

For dronkenesse is verray sepultureOf mannes wit and his discrecioun.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.

According to Maimonides, one should always walk the King's Road, staying away from the extremes, neither surrendering completely to one's emotions nor rejecting them entirely.

I could do this. I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold in honour. We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms simple and calm and blessed which we saw once in a pure, clear light being pure ourselves.

The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.

My fury does not blind me.

Você sabe que o pudor é somente o outro lado da lascívia.

Extremismos nunca são saudáveis.

La teoría de que la infancia debe ser un período de inocencia plácida no existía entonces, ése fue un invento posterior de los norteamericanos, antes se esperaba que la vida fuera dura y para eso nos templaban los nervios. Los métodos didácticos se fundamentaban en la resistencia: mientras más pruebas inhumanas superaba un crío, mejor preparado estaba para los albures de la edad adulta.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the heroical virtue.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain.