Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Be moderate in everything, including moderation.
No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]
I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
I try to eat well, but I don't deny myself the foods I love. I just eat them in moderation.
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.
Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow.
Moderation shifts when extremes do.
The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.
It does people good to have to do things they don't like in moderation.
The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.
The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.
They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.
Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion
It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.
The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse.
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