Quotes About Temperance

Conquer your lustful desires and your wisdom will be perfected.

Calmness of behavior, composure of mind, should not be disturbed by passion of any kind.

how much patience is a virtue, how much rage is a necessity?

Eat little, sleep sound.

A fast is better than a bad meal.

Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

For the greatest thing in the smallest compass is a sound mind in a human body.

Moderation 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 Horace, from Odes, Book II, translated by William Cowper

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never

Forestalling pleasure is an inventive technique for getting double

delaying gratification, about having to work for something, about dealing with disappointment.

No violent extreme endures.

I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all violent convulsions in the affairs of men.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Too much virtue can be criminal.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree just because it didn't bear any figs for his breakfast; that was a disgraceful, bad-tempered thing to do, and to try and make a virtue of it by saying it was a demonstration of faith only made things worse.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.