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Temperance is about moderation and self-restraint

• Moderation and self-restraint, as in behavior or expression. Restraint in the use of or abstinence from alcoholic liquors/intoxicants. Oxford Dictionary
• Temperance: The practice of always controlling your actions, thoughts, or feelings so that you do not eat or drink too much, become too angry, etc. Merriam Webster Dictionary
• Moderation,  Balance,  Self-control,  Self-discipline,  Excess,  Greed,  Addiction,  Cravings

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Temperance is a great virtue

• …there is astonishing convergence across the millennia and across cultures about virtue and strength. Confucius, Aristotle, Aquinas, the Bushido samurai code, the Bhagavad- Gita, and other venerable traditions disagree on the details, but all of these codes include six core virtues: Wisdom and knowledge, Courage, Love and humanity, Justice, Temperance and Spirituality. Happiness is these virtues in action. Martin Seligman
• Integrate these principles and habits deep within your nature; into your basic character: integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, simplicity, modesty. Stephen Covey
• Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. Benjamin Franklin
• To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.  Martin Seligman
• And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; / And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; / And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. Bible
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Temperance brings health and happiness

• Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age. Cicero
• 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 or 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
• Health consists with temperance alone. Alexander Pope
• Joy and Temperance and Repose – Slam the door on the doctor’s nose. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. Samuel Smiles
• Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness. C.N. Douglas
• Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. Lord Chesterfield
• The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. Sir Philip Sidney
• Health,  Happiness

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Temperance brings calm and peace

• Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. Buddha
• For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. Margaret Cavendish
• Calmness,  Inner peace

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Temperance is the best cosmetic

• There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. Arthur Helps
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Temperance keeps the passions in check

• Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions. St. Thomas Aquinas
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Temperance is wisdom

• Perfect wisdom has four parts, namely wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately. Plato
• The middle path is the way to wisdom. Rumi
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Temperance is moderation in what is good and abstinence from what is bad

• Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. Frances E. Willard

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Abstinence may at times be easier than temperance

• Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. Samuel Johnson
• Abstinence is easier than temperance. Seneca
• I’m tired of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. Vance Havner
• My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health. Robert E. Lee

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Temperate temperance is best

• Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. Mark Twain

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Frugality is a form of temperance

• Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. Samuel Johnson
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Labor and temperance form an excellent combination

• Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. Charles Kingsley
• Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.

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• The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. Christian Nevell Bovee
• A tea-totaller is someone who practices moderation to excess.
• Abstinence is a good thing, but it should be practiced in moderation.
• As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake. Mark Twain
• Be moderate in all things including moderation.  Oscar Wilde
• Glutton, n. A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia. Ambrose Bierce
• I smoke in moderation only one cigar at a time.  Mark Twain
• Take everything in moderation. Including moderation.
• Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present. William Lloyd Garrison
• There’s nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. John Ciandi
• Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. Mark Twain

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