Quotes About Temperance

Never will I overindulge the requests of my flesh, rather I will cherish my body with cleanliness and moderation.

YaÅŸland?kça hem camiye daha çok giden, hem de daha çok rak? içenler gibi olmam??t? Mevlut, az içiyordu

SAVE. If you want to test a young man and ascertain whether nature made him for a king or a subject, give him a thousand dollars and see what he will do with it. If he is born to conquer and command, he will put it quietly away till he is ready to use it as opportunity offers. If he is born to serve, he will immediately begin to spend it in gratifying his ruling propensity. —Parton.

No man can be great who allows himself to get angry.

Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Do everything in moderation, even moderation.

What is the good of being ready with the tongue? They who encounter men with smartnesses of speech for the most part procure themselves hatred. I know not whether he be truly virtuous, but why should he show readiness of the tongue?

The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease.

He was, indeed, a governour, who had most exactly studied that book which, pretending to teach politicks, did only contain three leaves, and but one word in each of those leaves, which word was, MODERATION.

So, because I had apologized and sympathized with her point of view, she began apologizing and sympathizing with my point of view. I had the satisfaction of controlling my temper, the satisfaction of returning kindness for an insult. I got infinitely more real fun out of making her like me than I could ever have gotten out of telling her to go and take a jump in the Schuylkill River.

another thing, Leo talking about abstinence is like Donald Trump talking about altruism.

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

Leonardo: «La pasión del ánimo expulsa la lujuria»

Every reasonable person must strive to promote moderation and a more objective judgment.

But there was in these eyes an expression of art and design, and, on provocation, a ferocity tempered by caution

It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

practice self-control.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

All the other virtues, and the living of a virtuous life, depend on them. If you took an introductory philosophy course in college, they were probably translated from the Greek as courage, justice, temperance, and prudence.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.