Gold hath no lustre of its own. It shines by temperate use alone.
It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.
Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.
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.
There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.
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.
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.
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.
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
A temperate style is alone classical.
A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.
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.
Temperate anger well becomes the wise.
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.
In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.
If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
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.
