Beauty Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

— Aristotle

Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.

— Theodore Parker

I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.

— William Shakespeare

Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the…

— Jeremy Collier

Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

— C. A. Bartol

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

— Aristotle

Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing,…

— John Ruskin

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions

— St Thomas Aquinas

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

— Jeremy Taylor

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

— Michel de Montaigne

Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him…

— Saint Augustine

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

— Plato