sophrosyne

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III. How can we put a person forth to be the nation’s boss, and he Be utterly devoid of any semblance of sophrosyne?

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2016

The virtue on which they insisted was sophrosyne, knowing the limits which nature fixes for human conduct and keeping within them.

From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe

If the people were saved, it was due to that substratum of sanity, of Greek sophrosyne, which resisted the one and derided the other.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

The qualities necessary to the artist do no harm to those which make the thinker and good citizen—every where, as in the literary laws of ancient Greece, consonance, sophrosyne, moderation.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various