Temperate Quotes

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave… — Aristotle
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will… — Thomas Jefferson
Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most… — Barbara Holland
Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long… — William Shakespeare
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. — Mark Twain
One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were,… — Louis Agassiz
Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both. — Benjamin Franklin
Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours. — Monty Woolley
Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as… — Thomas Paine
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the… — Augustus William Hare
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart… — Aeschylus
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates
What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight in… — William Kittredge
The most essential elements of success in life are a purpose, increasing industry, temperate habits, scrupulous regard for ones word ... courteous manners, a generous… — William A. Clark
Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them... — Benjamin Rush
Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing… — Aristotle
Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned, can be but… — Luigi Cornaro

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