Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.
O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?
Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.
If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your infirmities. We have to suffer on account of the course you pursue, which is wrong. If it has an influence to lessen your powers of mind or body, we are affected by it.
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.
The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free
Intemperance is the only vulgarity.
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
