temperance Quotes

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

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become... ...

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... ...

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But... ...

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of gods green earth.