Temperate Quotes

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

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.

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.

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.