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Temperance
Mastery over one's appetites and pleasures — the self-command Plato called a kind of inner order.
Temperance (sōphrosynē) is the virtue of moderation and self-control over bodily desires and pleasures. Plato (4th c. BCE) treated it as a harmony in which appetite willingly submits to reason, while Aristotle defined it as the mean concerning the pleasures of touch and taste — the balance between self-indulgence and insensibility. One of the four cardinal virtues, it passed through Stoic and Roman thought into the heart of Western and later Christian ethics.
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