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Quotes About Temperance

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
~ Thomas Paine
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
~ Plautus
Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.
~ Anonymous
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.
~ Pietro Aretino
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
~ Bernard M. Baruch
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
~ Ralph W Sockman
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than to our strength.
~ La Rochefoucauld
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.
~ John Milton
Give me that man That is not passion's slave.
~ William Shakespeare
Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to anther.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Dine on little, and sup on less.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
~ Cyril Connolly
Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
~ William Penn
Candour and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin.
~ Tacitus
If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.
~ Old saying
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
~ Anne Bradstreet
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.
~ Taylor Caldwell
The less said the better.
~ Jane Austen
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.
~ Epictetus
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.
~ Greek proverb
Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.
~ Sir Joshua Reynolds
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
~ George Eliot