Post #2850

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
—Anacharsis

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Post #2848

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

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Post #2847

Temperance, that virtue without pride, and fortune without envy, that gives indolence of body, with an equality of mind; the best guardian of youth and support of old age: the precept of reason, as well as religion, and physician of the soul as well as the body; the tutelar goddess of health, and universal medicine of life.
—Sir William Temple

Post #2691

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.
—Jeremy Taylor

Post #2527

A Spartan, being asked why his people drank so little, replied: "That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us."
—Plutarch

Post #2255

The young man who thinks he can drink "just a little" because others do, and not be in danger of a drunkard's grave, should look around him to the fearful examples to be found on the streets of every large city and many small ones. Even if you succeed in keeping within the limits of "moderate drinking" your example to those who are unfortunately not so strong-willed should ever be borne in mind. Help the weaker brother. Think not of self alone. Remember the Golden Rule.
—George D. R. Hubbard

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Post #1650

I have four good reasons for being an abstainer—my head is clearer, my health is better, my heart is lighter, and my purse is heavier.
—Thomas Guthrie

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Post #1649

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the children, vigor in the body, intelligence in the brain, and spirit in the whole constitution.
—Benjamin Franklin