Crossword-Solution: SOPHROSYNE 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

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

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Her character is built up of "_Sophrosyne_," of self-restraint and the love of goodness--qualities which often seem second-rate or even tiresome until they have a sufficiently great field in which to act.

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.

TEMPERANCE The English word "temperance" (particularly in its local association with agitation regarding use of intoxicating liquors) is a poor substitute for the Greek _sophrosyne_ which, through the Latin _temperantia_, it represents.