Quotes About Temperance

Impatience can be fatal.

A cool head. That's the secret to getting along in life, gentlemen. You

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.

I never drink alcohol.

I'm ambitious but not overtly so.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

I'm not an ascetic.

There is measure in all things.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man?s door, Embittering all his state.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

I was directed by the coachman to by far the most splendid temperance coffee-house I had ever seen: but it seemed too fine a lodging-house for harbouring the more characteristic English and I had not crossed the Border to see cosmopolites...

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason." By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing." Hugo Grotius

To try to extinguish the drive for riches with money is like trying to quench a fire by pouring butter over it.

Take everything in moderation, including moderation.

Saying of the Prophet Anger You ask for a piece of advice. I tell you : 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.

Haste is from the Devil.

El hombre impaciente es su propio enemigo, cierra de golpe la puerta de su propio progreso.

Si tu deseo de lo "bueno" está basado en la avidez, no es bueno, es avidez.

La prisa procede del diablo.

Restraint. The original purpose of cultivating restraint is so that eventually one will not need to have restraint.