Quotes about moderation

"It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken."

Aristotle on moderation
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"It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken."

Aristotle on moderation   

"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

Augustine, St. on moderation
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"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."

Ciardi, John on moderation   

"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."

Cicero, Marcus T. on moderation
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"My God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!"

Clive, Robert on moderation   

"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."

Colton, Charles Caleb on moderation   

"Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present."

Garrison, William Lloyd on moderation   

"Out of moderation a pure happiness springs."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on moderation   

"He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little."

Horace on moderation   

"There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth."

Johnson, Vera on moderation   

"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."

Kissinger, Henry on moderation   

"Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on moderation   

"Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on moderation   

"Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on moderation   

"Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes."

Metternich, Klemens Von on moderation   

"Keep a mid course between two extremes."

Ovid on moderation   

"You will go most safely in the middle."

Ovid on moderation   

"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

Paine, Thomas on moderation
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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

Paine, Thomas on moderation
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"To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity."

Pascal, Blaise on moderation   

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"Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm."

Paul, Jean on moderation
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"Let not turn fun to mischief."

Proverb on moderation   

"Moderate profits fill the purse."

Proverb, Italian on moderation   

"That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution."

Seneca on moderation   

"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess."

Seneca on moderation   

"He who drinks a glass a day shall live to die another way."

Stanlicus on moderation   

"Everything in moderation -- including moderation."

Steiman, Harvey on moderation   

"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on moderation
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"Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance."

Twain, Mark on moderation
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"It speaks volumes for a person that when placed in quite different situations, they display the same spirit of moderation."

Unknown, Source on moderation   

"Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess."

Unknown, Source on moderation   

"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."

Wilde, Oscar on moderation   

"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul."

Willard, Frances E. on moderation