Quotes About Temperance

Think before you speak but do not speak everything that you think.

Christians do not need more emotions; they need more self-control.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Teetotalers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

Sensuality is the death of the soul.

É por isso, meus caros Símias e Cebete, que os verdadeiros filósofos se acautelam contra os apetites do corpo, resistem-lhes e não se deixam dominar por eles; não têm medo da pobreza nem da ruína de sua própria casa, como a maioria dos homens, amigos das riquezas, nem temem a falta de honrarias e a vida inglória, como se dá com os amantes do poder e das distinções

Are not they temperate from a kind of intemperance?

He who desires to be happy must pursue and practice temperance and run away from intemperance as fast as his legs will carry him.

And he who mingles music with gymnastic in the fairest proportions, and best attempers them to the soul, may be rightly called the true musician and harmonist in a far higher sense than the tuner of the strings. You are quite right, Socrates. And such a presiding genius will be always required in our State if the government is to last. Yes

And the love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.

Two virtues remain to be discovered in the State—first, temperance, and then justice which is the end of our search. Very true. Now, can we find justice without troubling ourselves about temperance? I do not know how that can be accomplished, he said, nor do I desire that justice should be brought to light and temperance lost sight of; and therefore I wish that you would do me the favour of considering temperance first. Certainly

Temperance, I replied, is the ordering or controlling of certain pleasures and desires; this is curiously enough implied in the saying of 'a man being his own master;' and other traces of the same notion may be found in language. No

De modo que, al tratar de ver el alma que es filosófica y la que no, examinarás desde la juventud del sujeto si esa alma es justa y mansa o insociable y agreste.

Podrás, pues, censurar un tenor de vida que nadie sería capaz de practicar sino siendo por naturaleza me­morioso, expedito en el estudio, elevado de mente, bien dispuesto, amigo y allegado de la verdad, de la justicia, del valor y de la templanza?

At that point they all agreed not to get drunk that evening; they decided to drink only as much as pleased them.