Temperance Quotes
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
Francis Bacon
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The health of the soul is to have its faculties, reason, high spirit and desire happily tempered, with the reason in command and reining in the other two, like restive horses. The special name of this health is temperance, that is σωφροσύνη or 'thought-preserving,' for it creates a preservation of one of our powers, namely that of wise-thinking.
Philo
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I am sure,
Though you can guess what temperance should be,
You know not what it is.
William Shakespeare
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If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church?
Frances E. Willard
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Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
Cyrus Augustus Bartol
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Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
Aristotle
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
William Penn
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For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
Aristotle
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Abstinence is the surety of temperance.
Plato
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Abstinence is easier than temperance.
Seneca the Younger
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If all the world Should in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.
John Milton
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Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
William Lyon Mackenzie