[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Of course I contradict myself. Why else would hold things in and put the fire out?” — Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso Copy Share Image
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, “Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what… — Meredith L. Young-Sowers Copy Share Image
“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls. — Socrates Copy Share Image
I'm sorry for losing my temper following the race, but after a day or two of looking back at the race it's… — Robby Gordon Copy Share Image
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The message of this season that is applicable throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly presents and treasures but… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“But I have none: the king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
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