Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire. –St. Augustine

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. –St. Teresa of Avila

But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure. In order to preserve it there is nothing more useful than renouncing your own will and substituting for it the will of the divine heart. In this way his will can carry out for us whatever contributes to his glory, and we will be happy to be his subjects and to trust entirely in him. -St Margaret Mary Alacoque

He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another. –Pope St. Clement I

Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart. –St. Augustine

Virtue is when we take the faculties and gifts that God created inside us when He created us in His image and use those same faculties and gifts to be able to turn towards God and to turn into His likeness. Contrary to this is what the passions are: we take those same faculties and gifts and turn toward something that is temporal, that is created, instead of using them towards the Creator. Saint Basil the Great

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil. St Domenic

The Church names eight passions: self-love, gluttony, lust, love of money and greed, sadness, acedia (sloth & dejection or apathy and boredom anger, fear, vainglory, and pride. They are all interconnected. Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee (Epictetus)