Quotes About Temperance

My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Let reason govern desire.

O, she is the antidote to desire.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

Delicacy in shaping desires of any kind will help to reach excellence, but failure will bring disaster.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

There's no excuses for over-drinking.

I have never been drunk in my life, and I don't expect I ever will be.

It's important on any English wicket to leave well.

You can't ever get too high or too low.