All things Quote by Saint Augustine

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

— Jeremy Taylor

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 simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions

— St Thomas Aquinas

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 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

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

— C. A. Bartol

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

— Robert A. Burton

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

— Theodore Parker

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy…

— Joseph Addison

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

— Epicurus

“The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude.”

— Francis Bacon

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

— Edmund Burke