Temperance II Definition: A human habit strengthened and elevated by grace, temperance tends to moderate sensitive pleasures, according to the right order of reason and man's ordination to the last supernatural end, in the light of faith. To live warmly is to foster harmony between the senses and reason. Temperance seeks a balance capable of guaranteeing the integral development of the human being, as corresponds to his dignity as a person destined, in addition, to enjoy God in Heaven. The heart of the Christian, like good wine, improves in quality over the years through the action of grace and personal effort to practice the virtues. Among these human moral qualities, temperance is especially important, because it builds and defends the inner order of man of the strong tendency - manned in his being as a consequence of original sin - to go against nature itself. Temperance is manor. Not everything that we experience in the body and in the soul