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• Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teaching, Heart, Simple

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• ...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.

  David Hume

  Past, Joy, Mind

  David Hume, Peter Millican (2008). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.102, Oxford University Press

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• Computer games are like any other form of media and entertainment - you have to exercise some moderation. In the same way you can invest a lot of time in a computer game, you can invest a lot of time in watching TV or browsing the Web. So it's an issue of recognizing that this is something you should consume in moderation.

  Frank Pearce

  Exercise, Media, Games

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love Is, Common Sense, Laughing

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• Models eat. They're crazy about moderation, but they eat. There's this feeling that all models are into drugs or drinking or whatever, but I've got to say, 99% of the girls I work with are the healthiest people I know. Of course, as humans, we're not going to eat salads and organic food all the time.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Girl, Crazy, Drinking

  Interview with Robert Haynes-Peterson, www.askmen.com. January 2, 2015.

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• Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation of the inhabitants of Concord, as exhibited in the Revolution, and on later occasions.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Peace, Rivers, Revolution

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.8, Xist Publishing

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• [Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His comments are a kind of back-handed compliment, I suppose.

  Larry Hurtado

  Christian, Example, Able

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Humility, Love Is, Abundance

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• Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.

  Stephen Covey

  Fun, Pursuit Of Happiness, Self

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• What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him, wherein God, from being a judge, becomes our Father, pardoning our sins and accepting our obedience, though feeble and blemished? We are now brought to heaven under the covenant of grace by a way of love and mercy.

  Richard Sibbes

  Father, Judging, Heaven

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.66, Titus Books

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• Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

  Oscar Wilde

  All Things, Including, Moderates

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• When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

  C. L. R. James

  Men, Long, Wonder

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• It continues to defy explanation why liberals who theoretically love liberty, equality, tolerance and moderation, should find so much to despise in their own country, which represents the fullest expression of those virtues anywhere on the globe.

  Mona Charen

  Country, Expression, Tolerance

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• Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Mean, Moderation In All Things, All Things

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• Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Adversity, Demand, Prosperity

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• All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

  Hippocrates

  Healthy, Growth, Age

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• Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

  Robertson Davies

  Mean, Acceptance, Skills

  Robertson Davies, Surridge, Jennifer (1997). “Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts”, M&S

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• In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

  Robert Herrick

  Kings, Sheep, Skins

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too
  deeply?

  Diane Ackerman

  Exercise, Flames, People

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• If you embrace moderation, eat whole foods instead of junk, live within your physical, monetary, and environmental budget rather than constantly exceeding it, you will lose weight, tread more lightly on the planet, and gain satisfaction from these things.

  Mark Bittman

  Environmental, Junk, Weight

  Mark Bittman (2008). “Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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  I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.

  Genghis Khan

  Beautiful, Horse, Hate

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• Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

  Oscar Wilde

  Meals, Enough

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a helpful guide to the daily habits and needs of us all.

  Tom Brokaw

  Buddhist, Needs, Earth

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• I can't do anything in moderation.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  I Can

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• For me, temperance is essential to good work.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Essentials, Good Work, Temperance

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