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Temperance is the will-power to resist good fortune that offers too much of a good thing

Drawn from what Mortimer Adler said

What Mortimer Adler actually said

  1. Mortimer Adler American philosopher and educator (1902 to 2001)
    Based on the common-sense truism that you can often have too much of a good thing, temperance consists in the will-power to resist the kind of good fortune that makes an excess of such goods available.

    Where this was said

    ↗Why Strength of Character Is Needed to Lead a Good Life (from The Time of Our Lives, 1970; The Great Ideas Online no. 40)thegreatideas.org

    c. 1970

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