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Temperate anger well becomes the wise. -- Philemon
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. -- Mark Twain
Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them... -- Benjamin Rush
Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between. -- Jerome Lawrence
A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another. -- Arthur Keith
Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. -- Aristotle
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. -- Aristotle
Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here. -- Diablo Cody
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. -- Virginia Woolf
New England waters are some of my favorite - they are some of the richest waters because they are temperate waters and nutrient-rich, and therefore provide food for so many animals, from giant whales to sharks to everything else. -- Brian Skerry
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. -- Vitruvius
I grew up partially in L.A. and partially in New York. In L.A., anything goes because it's really temperate. There aren't any fashion rules dictated by weather, whereas in New York, of course, there are. New York is seasonal, and also it's a fashion mecca, so people are a little more aware of how they put things together. -- Tessa Thompson
A temperate style is alone classical. -- Joseph Joubert
A temperate anger has virtue in it. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
If you would be chaste, you must be temperate. -- Henry David Thoreau
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. -- Benjamin Franklin
Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. -- Joan Didion
A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate. -- Voltaire
Gold hath no lustre of its own. It shines by temperate use alone. -- Francis of Assisi
I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower. -- Walt Whitman
It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue. -- Aristotle
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated. -- Alfred de Musset
Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours. -- Monty Woolley
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. -- Socrates
A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason. -- John Selden
Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. -- William Shakespeare
Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both. -- Benjamin Franklin
Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices. -- Albert Pike
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence. -- A. O. Scott
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching. -- Lord Chesterfield
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. -- Aristotle
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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. -- Socrates
The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.... -- Augustus William Hare
A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion. -- Benjamin Franklin
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . . -- William Shakespeare
What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight in the temperate zones, in the most beautiful house. -- William Kittredge
Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority. -- Marcus Aurelius
Life isn't a lazy cruise on some endless, calm, and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves that wreck and sink your boat. Life is a series of storm -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate. -- Aeschylus
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no. -- John Henry Newman
As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge. -- John Adams

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