Chastity Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

— Jeremy Taylor

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

— Frances E. Willard

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

— Aristotle

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

— Theodore Parker

Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

— DH Lawrence

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

“For a prohibition always increases an illicit desire so long as the love of and joy in holiness is too weak to conquer the…

— Augustine of Hippo

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“None of the great religions have done more than exclude, throw out a long range of prohibitions. But prohibitions create the desire they are…

— Lawrence Durrell

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

— Mark Twain

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

— Aristotle