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Quotes About Moderation

The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.
~ Christopher Moore
You can only eat so much white cake.
~ Christopher Moore
Las tres joyas del taoísmo son la compasión, la moderación y la humildad…
~ Christopher Moore
The three jewels of the Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.
~ Christopher Moore
Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry
~ Christopher Paolini
I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.
~ Tracy Kidder
A lee-tle bit
~ Trevanian
Since we're neither at the bottom nor at the top, we must be in the middle.
~ Trina Paulus
Aut semel aut iterum medium generaliter esto
~ Umberto Eco
El doctor angélico dice que las pasiones en sí mismas no son malas, pero que han de moderarse mediante la voluntad guiada por el alma racional. Sólo que aquella mañana mi alma racional estaba adormecida por la fatiga que refrenaba el apetito irascible, volcado hacía el bien y el mal como metas por conquistar, pero no al apetito concupiscible, volcado hacia el bien y el mal como metas conocidas.
~ Umberto Eco
Admittenda tibi joca sunt post seria quaedam, sed tamen et dignis ipsa gerenda modis». Y
~ Umberto Eco
Rischiamo di restare sommersi da un eccesso di informazioni, e la differenza tra il silenzio e il troppo rumore è davvero minima
~ Umberto Eco
Tudo é veneno, se tomado em doses exageradas, até o vinho.
~ Umberto Eco
???? (hara hachi bun me, "belly eight parts [in ten] full")—an ancient Confucian precept
~ Vaclav Smil
Hunger is the best sauce. When you always have regular meals, you lose your appreciation for food. Too much of a good thing spoils it.
~ Victor Canning
Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
~ Victor Hugo
The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
~ Victor Hugo
Let's not bring flame where light is enough.
~ Victor Hugo
Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.
~ Victor Hugo
Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in all things write the word finis in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent, draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand.
~ Victor Hugo
As for wine, he drank water.
~ Victor Hugo
Indigestion was designed by God to impose morality on stomachs.
~ Victor Hugo
Les recomiendo la moderación en sus deseos. (Tholomyes)
~ Victor Hugo
The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There
~ Victor Hugo