Character Quote by Joseph Addison

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

— C. A. Bartol

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

— Epicurus

Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be…

— Francis Quarles

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

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in…

— Joseph Butler

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it…

— Joseph Addison

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

— Theodore Parker

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

— Edmund Burke

Devotion is not a concept, not a certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent of dissolution.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

— Pope Leo I