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«We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
performing, temperate
«Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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meditation, re-creation, recreation, sleeping, temperate, too little
«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.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
Happiness,
Self-knowledge
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«TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance»
«Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment?No man.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
amazed, furious, in a moment, loyal, neutral, neutrals, temperate
«Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate»
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