Virtues: Temperance

Temperance is considered to be one of the worse virtues in this country It is not an easy virtue. He says we are in an intemperate waste oriented society and he explains why. He says we are intemperate but we want to have the benefit of having temperance. Even the pagans understood what temperance was. They have a saying about it, "everything in moderation" Not much about temperance can be found in the Old Testament but it can be found in the Catholic Book of "Wisdom".