The Study of Applied Principles of Virtuous-Living!

      “Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.” Thomas Aquinas   “Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau   “Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.” Ralph Waldo Emerson   “Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.” Benjamin Haydon   “The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.” Philip Sidney   “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   “Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.” Frances E. Willa...

  “It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.” ―Horace   “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” ―Paulo Coelho   “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ―William Faulkner   “You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.” ―Brené Brown   “Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.” ―Lana Del Rey   “Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” ―Maya Angelou   “To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.” ―St. Catherine of Siena