William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Have more than you show, Speak less than you know."
Temperance quotes
Temperance
28 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Socrates
Philosopher
"There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age."
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"Teach hope to all, despair to none."
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"Abstinence is the surety of temperance."
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"I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number."
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"Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much."
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"Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires."
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"The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance."
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"Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning."
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"If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail."
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"That cardinal virtue, temperance."
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"Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing."
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"In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance."
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"We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance."
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"Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it."
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"I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is."
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"If you would be chaste, you must be temperate."
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