“Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.”
Saint Augustine
“Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.”
Frances E. Willard
“My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.”
Robert E. Lee
“To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.”
St. Augustine
“Abstinence is the surety of temperance”
Plato
“Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.”
Voltaire
“If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy