Temperance has a bad reputation in a pleasure-saturated age. The word sounds gray. It seems to name the person who never laughs loudly, never eats with delight, never dances, never feasts, never risks joy, and never trusts anything warm in the body. Temperance is imagined as fear of pleasure dressed up as virtue.
A Virtue
Temperance is not being boring
The cardinal virtue most often confused with refusal of pleasure.
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