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Temperance Quotes by Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
- 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…
- Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
More Temperance Quotes
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious… — Lord Chesterfield
- Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. — Thomas Aquinas
- A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who… — John Climacus
- Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the… — Ephrem the Syrian
- He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a… — Sam Manekshaw
- Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in… — Dwight L. Moody
- My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous… — Robert E. Lee
- I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking. — Benjamin Franklin
- Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning. — Michel de Montaigne
- Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us… — J. Reuben Clark