Add Quote by Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

— Aristotle

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

— Saint Augustine

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

— St Thomas Aquinas

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

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

— Michel de Montaigne

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

— Frances E. Willard

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance…

— Stephen Fry

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

— Jeremy Taylor

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

— Mark Twain

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

— Robert A. Burton

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

— Juvenal

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

— Aristotle