Quotes About Moderation

mean is the cause

For both excessive and deficient exercise ruin bodily strength, and, similarly, too much or too little eating or drinking ruins health, whereas the proportionate amount produces, increases, and preserves it.

So more friends than suffice for one's own life are superfluous, and a hindrance to noble loving; there is therefore no need of them. In the case of friends for pleasure, too, a few are enough, as a little seasoning in food is enough. (page 177)

One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy.

Une chose, quand elle n'est pas excessive, est un bien ; du moment qu'elle est plus grande qu'il ne faut, elle devient un mal.

Virtue is a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

I having stated in a former part of this treatise that men should choose the mean instead of either the excess or defect, and that the mean is according to the dictates of Right Reason;

On the other hand, because fortune is needed as an addition, some hold good fortune to be identical with Happiness: which it is not, for even this in excess is a hindrance, and perhaps then has no right to be called good fortune since it is good only in so far as it contributes to Happiness.

Most people who are ruined are ruined by attempting too much.

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year.

How does the saying go? "Earning less and sleeping well is earning best.

There's a limit to everything; even chicken soup with kreplach can get to be too much.

The Ayurvedic route to great health involves two simple steps: 1. Doing less; 2. Being more.

A substantial daily intake of alcohol was the perfect way to stay in shape.

I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things

He had never found that more than five whiskeys and soda were beneficial to law-practice.

Enough Is as Good as a feast.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

OK.Now, I may be engaged, but I'm not going to get carried away.

It's little I ask, and get still less, but quite enough for me.

To me, excessive silence seems to bode as ill as too much shouting.

No one with any sense of self-control.

It's little I ask for, and still less I get, yet it is enough for me.