Bane Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bane Drunkenness Intemperance Plaque Sensuality Seasoning Sensuality Sensuality Temperance Temperance
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions — St Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports,… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
“Fear is the bane of all creatures and bubbles inside all forming a rock of solidifying darkness, sucking all will power to act or… — Isabella Irini Poretsis Copy Share Image
Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image