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.
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.
Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned, can be but little affected by other disorders or incidental mishaps. Whereas, on the other hand, I truly conclude that disorderly habits of living are those which are fatal.
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.
Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate
A contract of true love; be not too late.
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
Of all the lands in the world's temperate zones, China has the greatest number of plant species the eastern United States has the next largest number.
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.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it.... We become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.
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.
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
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