Moderation Quotes - Page 5

• Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Perfect, Catholic

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• Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

  Horace Porter

  Including, Moderates

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• No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Balance, Matter

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• 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.]

  Plautus

  Men, Excess, Trouble

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• I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Smoking, Cigar, Temperance

  Mark Twain (2013). “Great Speeches by Mark Twain”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Practice, Needs

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• I try to eat well, but I don't deny myself the foods I love. I just eat them in moderation.

  Regina King

  Trying, Deny, Wells

  "Actor Regina King: Divorce as a journey, staying a family and mind over matter". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Empathy, Faults

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• 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'.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Mind, Balance, Sound Body

  "Sophie's World". Book by Jostein Gaarder, 1995.

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• 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.

  Plato

  Self, Contentment, Foundation

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• It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

  Seneca the Elder

  Greatness, Mind, Excess

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• I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Mankind, Extremes, Repeats

  "The Spirit of the Laws". Book by Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXII: Of Laws in Relation to the Use of Money, Ch. 22: The Same Subject continued, 1748.

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• Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow.

  Dave Draper

  Nice, Simple, Mediocrity

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• Moderation shifts when extremes do.

  Mason Cooley

  Extremes

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Years, One Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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• It does people good to have to do things they don't like in moderation.

  Anne Shirley

  People, Doe

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• The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.

  Rick Riordan

  Flaws, Dangerous

  Rick Riordan (2008). “Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse”, p.217, Penguin UK

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• The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

  Gautama Buddha

  Violence, Purity, Goodness

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• Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Strength, Giving

  "Titan", Zykel 145 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny Inspirational, Loss, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [5]

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• Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

  Ellen Glasgow

  Explosions

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• It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

  Roberto Benigni

  Inspirational, Happiness, Thank You

  "Talking Shop At Oscar Time". Interview with Kenneth L. Woodward, www.newsweek.com. July 2, 1999.

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• Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Failing, Circumstances, Plans

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• Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.

  Joseph Joubert

  Angel, Moved

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.60

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• 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.

  Jaron Lanier

  Crush, Spiritual, Thinking

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