Quotes About Moderation

It is quite normal to see good intentions, when not carried out with moderation, urging men to actions which are truly vicious.

All passions that allow themselves to be savored and digested are only mediocre. -from Of sadness

That is a subtle observation on the part of philosophy: you can both love virtue too much and [B] behave with excess [A] in an action which itself is just. The [B] Voice [A] of God adapts itself fittingly to that bias: 'Be not more wise than it behoveth, but be ye soberly wise.

Folly never thinks it has enough, even when it obtains what it desires, but Wisdom is happy with what is to hand and is never vexed with itself.]3

Greatness of soul consists not so much in mounting and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to govern and circumscribe itself; it takes everything for great, that is enough, and demonstrates itself in preferring moderate to eminent things. There is nothing so fine and legitimate as well and duly play the man; nor science so arduous as well and naturally know how to live this life; and of all the infirmities we have, 'tis the most barbarous to despise our being.

I have heard Silvius, an excellent physician of Paris, say that lest the digestive faculties of the stomach should grow idle, it were not amiss once a month to rouse them by this excess, and to spur them lest they should grow dull and rusty; and one author tells us that the Persians used to consult about their most important affairs after being well warmed with wine.

If you did not have death, you would curse me incessantly for depriving you of it. Realizing its advantages, I have deliberately mixed a little bitterness into it to prevent you from embracing it too greedily and imprudently. To place you in the state of moderation I ask of you, of neither running from life nor fleeing from death, I have modulated them both between sweet and bitter.

soÌ"phrosyneÌ", el estado al que tendemos, mediante el ejercicio del autocontrol y mediante la moderación en la práctica de los placeres, está caracterizada como una libertad.

When you overdo, you deplete your body and go against yourself, and it will take you longer to accomplish your goal. But if you do less than your best, you subject yourself to frustrations, self-judgment, guilt, and regrets.

Chi non ha mai fretta trova il tempo per tutto.

Tea is not vodka, it is impossible to drink it a lot

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.

I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

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

I love my body because it's what I've been given. Being too thin is just as unhealthy as being obese.

Watching people party is cool, but I don't love watching people get super-duper trashed and annoying. I feel protected behind my booth - away from the madness, but a part of it too.

I hate diets and I love eating.

I love bacon, but I don't think we need it on everything.

Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.

I love going out to clubs. Granted, I don't get hammered or do anything to embarrass myself. I'd call myself wholesome but it's not like I only drink milk.

I love that this film [Into the Forest] has a balance.

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

Too much of anything is not good. But I love her too much.