Seneca the Younger Quotes About 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 the Younger

  Desire, Needs, Want

• Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Foundation, Moderation, Unstable

• The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Heart, Prosperity

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• A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

  Seneca the Younger

  Freedom, Liberty, Moderation

• Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drinking, Wine, Sobriety

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