Quotes About Temperance

But that I am by nature phlegmatic, slow to wrath, and prone to lechery (to love, I would say)

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

Can someone be truly good if they never have the opportunity to act badly?

We classify the positive traits that protect us from excess as strengths of temperance. What are the types of excess of special concern? Hatred—against which forgiveness and mercy protect us. Arrogance—against which humility and modesty protect us. Short-term pleasure with long-term costs—against which prudence protects us. And destabilizing emotional extremes of all sorts—against which self-regulation protects us.

Tudo é veneno, se tomado em doses exageradas, até o vinho.

As for wine, he drank water.

He was full of sly caution and clumsy recklessness. He

Les recomiendo la moderación en sus deseos. (Tholomyes)

Well, at least measure your drinks,- liquor and loquacity are your besetting weaknesses.

We should manage our fortune as our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when 'tis bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant.

No conozco muchas reglas para regir la vida —había afirmado—. Pero te enseñaré una muy sencilla. No metas en tu cuerpo cosas innecesarias. Nada de venenos ni productos químicos, tampoco gases, tabaco o alcohol, ningún objeto afilado ni agujas prescindibles (drogas o tatuajes) y, por supuesto…, ningún pene innecesario.

If it tastes good, spit it out. All those cakes and pies and candy and ice cream -- all that terrible fast food stuff! I just bought a new corvette sports car ... would I put oil in the gas tank? Would I?

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Chocolate is food from the gods; it's energy, vitality, oneness.

Dispatch business quickly, and keep out of long debates and heats… be swift to hear, and slow to speak, and let it be in the grace, which seasons all words. George Fox,

Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow.

Over time, and perhaps because of his contact with human beings, the Doctor mellowed and became less irascible. But his brilliance and his passion for justice remained undiminished. …

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

When God gives you an inch, don't take a mile.

Digamo-lo com franqueza: não há ditador mais sanguinário que o povo; só a mão severa mas justa do chefe lhe pode temperar o furor.

Real and solid happiness springs from moderation.