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• Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

  Democritus

  Pain, Wind, Pleasure

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

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• There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

  H. Allen Smith

  Too Much, Gentility, Pencils

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• Take this at least, this last advice, my son:
  Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on:
  The coursers of themselves will run too fast,
  Your art must be to moderate their haste.

  Ovid

  Running, Art, Moving

  Ovid (1998). “Metamorphoses”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

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• I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Italian, People, Pasta

  "Giada De Laurentiis' slim-cooking secrets". Interview, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2012.

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• I stand astonished at my own moderation

  Robert Clive

  My Own

  Quoted in G. R. Gleig, The Life of Robert, First Lord Clive (1848)

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• Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Ambition, Men, People

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• To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greatness, Two, Knowing

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• 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 cause like the present.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Mother, Men, Fire

  The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)

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• My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

  Edmund Burke

  Good Friend, Men, Self

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.212

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• I'm a believer in moderation in all things, including moderation.

  Robert Genn

  Believer, All Things, Including

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• The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Patience, Philosophical

  "Living Like Benjamin: Making Dreams Come True". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (p. 143), November 1, 2007.

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• Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, War, Civilization

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• Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Kind, Ends, Unlimited

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Lines

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• Safety lies in the middle course.
  [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]

  Ovid

  Lying, Safety, Middle

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• The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Wisdom, Philosophical, Justice

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• 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

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• To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Wise, Fall

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.

  Neil Peart

  Excess, Occasional, Everything In Moderation

  Neil Peart (2002). “Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road”, p.354, ECW Press

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• Keep a mid course between two extremes.

  Ovid

  Two, Extremes, Courses

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• Everything in moderation, including moderation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Food

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• Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

  Laozi

  Wish, Bows, Wish You

  Laozi (1999). “Laozi”

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• He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

  Horace

  Life, Doe, Littles

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, 20 BC.

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• Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

  Edna Ferber

  Literature, Littles, Too Much

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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• All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

  George Harrison

  Happy Birthday, Friends, Funny Birthday

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