Quotes About Temperance

Benjamin Franklin put it well: "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one." There

Aristotle put it, the rare skill "to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way.

Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy. ARISTOTLE, The Nichomachean Ethics

Benjamin Franklin put it well: Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.

enfadarse con la persona adecuada, en el grado exacto, en el momento oportuno, con el propósito justo y del modo correcto, eso, ciertamente, no resulta tan sencillo. Aristóteles, Ética a Nicómaco.

The richest of the rich is one who is not a prisoner to greed.

"In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has."

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

Health consists with temperance alone.

No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.

Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

The best cure for anger is delay.

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth.

Anger is self-immolation.