sophrosyne

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A dialogue in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy in a conversation about the meaning of sophrosyne, a Greek word usually translated into English as "temperance",

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  1. The quality of wise moderation; sound-mindedness; discreet good sense: referring especially to Greek art and philosophy.

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  • A dialogue in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy in a conversation about the meaning of sophrosyne, a Greek word usually translated into English as "temperance", —  Jon Aquino's Mental Garden
  • This state is called [Greek: sophrosyne], and the man in it [Greek: sophron]. —  Ethics
  • And then this finally is sort of a self-delusional process, and there's gods in the world that egg this person on because he lacks, the word is sophrosyne or moderation. —  Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
  • [Greek: enkrates] necessarily feels pain, because he must always be thwarting passions which are a real part of his nature, though this pain will grow less and less as he nears the point of [Greek: sophrosyne] or perfected Self-Mastery, which being attained the pain will then, and then only, cease entirely. —  Ethics
  • If the people were saved, it was due to that substratum of sanity, of Greek _sophrosyne, _ which resisted the one and derided the other. —  Old Calabria
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  1. from Greek σωφροσ, σ1ύνη, discretion, temperance. from σώφρων, earlier σαόφρων, of sound mind, temperate, from σῶς, orig. *σαός, sound, whole, safe, + φρήν mind.
 

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