The Fountain of Temperance, together with a reproduction of Michelangelo’s David, the El Sargento ahuehuete tree, and the Monumental Tribune, forms a symbolic landscape representing the four cardinal virtues: Justice, Prudence, Fortitude, and Temperance.

This fountain was built in 1931 by order of President Pascual Ortiz Rubio, although the sculpture that gives it its name dates back to 1908 and is the work of sculptor Enrique Guerra. Initially, the sculpture was placed in the former building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in commemoration of the Centennial of Independence.