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Quotes about Moderation
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“Moderate profits fill the purse.”
“You will go most safely in the middle.”
“Keep a mid course between two extremes.”
“Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.”
“Everything in moderation -- including moderation.”
“There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.”
“He who drinks a glass a day shall live to die another way.”
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
“To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.”
“To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.”
“There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.”
“Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.”
“Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.”
“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”
“He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.”
“It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.”
“Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.”
“Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.”
“My God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!”
“It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.”
“Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.”
“Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.”
“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”
“Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.”
“It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.”
“Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.”
“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”