Beautiful Quote by Socrates

“And therefore if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the first and…

— Socrates

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 is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions

— St Thomas Aquinas

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is…

— Aristotle

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

— Francois Fenelon

The soul sickens and heals the body, if it has sufficient existential motivation.

— Mariana Fulger

[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to…

— Vincent de Paul

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

— Antonio Porchia

Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we…

— Iris Murdoch

The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.

— Florence Welch

Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence…

— Marcus Aurelius