Temperantia is the ability to control one's impulses without suppressing them. Moderation is not asceticism. It is control, not renunciation.

This virtue creates distance between stimulus and response. This distance allows room for decision-making. Those who practise moderation do not act impulsively, but consciously.

Temperantia prevents exaggeration: emotional, physical, consumerist, social. It stabilises behaviour because it reduces extreme swings – not through harshness, but through clarity.

Moderation enables true freedom. Those who are not controlled – neither by greed, anger, fear nor habit – can make functional decisions.

Temperantia does not mean feeling less. It means not being overwhelmed by emotion. The virtue is neutral, sober, almost technical.

It reduces harm: less overconfidence, less self-neglect, less chaos.

Moderation is ultimately the inner regulator that makes everything else stable.

I work on it because extremes are too easy for me to reach – emotionally, mentally, organisationally. Moderation gives me a kind of inner regulator that creates stability. I want back the scope for action that takes away my extremes.