Quotes about Temperance

Never will I overindulge the requests of my flesh, rather I will cherish my body with cleanliness and moderation.

Do everything in moderation, even moderation.

Very few go astray who comport themselves with restraint.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

And with respect to feelings that are inherently injurious and wrong, their strategy is not one of resisting them in the moment of choice but of living in such a way that they do not have such feelings at all, or at least do not have them in a degree that makes it hard to decide against them when appropriate.

No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

If a soft answer turneth away wrath, maybe no answer stirreth wrath up.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.