Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Moderation

Quotes about: Moderation

• After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sex, Queens, Numbers

• Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Wisdom, Excess

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays:”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing

• We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Balance, Energy, Succeed

• The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Order, Miracle

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

• People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Business, People, Society

• If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much; they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fall, Mind, Favour

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