Moderation

(159 votes)   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
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(148 votes)   Everything in Moderation

Plato

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(120 votes)   Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(109 votes)   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.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

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(109 votes)   To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(104 votes)   Moderate profits fill the purse.

Italian Proverbs
Sayings of Italian Origin

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(92 votes)   Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Henry Kissinger
1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State

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(81 votes)   Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.

William Lloyd Garrison
1805-1879, American Abolitionist

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(78 votes)   Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(71 votes)   The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(69 votes)   Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(68 votes)   Let not turn fun to mischief.

Proverbs

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(67 votes)   He who drinks a glass a day shall live to die another way.

Stanlicus

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(63 votes)   Everything in moderation -- including moderation.

Harvey Steiman

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(63 votes)   Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Frances E. Willard

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