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Temperance Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

Michel de Montaigne

Stones, Obedience, Temperance

Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt, Orlando Williams Wight (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters”, p.80

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

Cleanliness, Elegance, Temperance

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

Green, Trunks, Intemperance

Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

Francis Quarles

Vices, Way, Intemperance

Francis Quarles (1681). “Enchiridion: containing institutions, divine ... moral”, p.174

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

Virtue, Cardinals, Temperance

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Self Harm, Moderation, Temperance

I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.

William Shakespeare

Character, Should, Temperance

William Shakespeare (2009). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.94, Palgrave Macmillan

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intemperance, Vulgarity

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.92, Harvard University Press

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

Henry David Thoreau

Would Be, Temperance, Chastity

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.274, Penguin

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