Temperance Quotes

141 quotes by 105 authors

Temperance adds zest to pleasure. — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and… — David O. McKay
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you… — Seneca the Younger
Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. — Joseph Addison
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition,… — Felix Mendelssohn
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who… — Saint Augustine
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. — Gautama Buddha
These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body. — Gregory of Nazianzus
The message of this season that is applicable throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly presents and treasures but in the forsaking… — James E. Faust
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. — Margaret Cavendish
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war. — William Lyon Mackenzie
For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity… — Aristotle
It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels -… — Socrates
The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I… — Astley Cooper
Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the… — Plato
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity. — Seneca the Younger

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