Quotes About Moderation

I would advise people never to diet!

I never drink alcohol.

I don't drink alcohol. I only really drink water.

I'm not very ambitious at all.

I've never been ambitious.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

It's amazing to me how often the answer to making something sound better is to play something less.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

I try not to focus too much on my appearance. As long as I'm being healthy, that's good enough for me.

I'm not an ascetic.

Os excessos em todas as coisas modelam os corpos segundo suas características. A bebedeira, como o estudo, engorda mais aos gordos e emagrece aos magros.

c?ci excesele de orice soi împing trupul pe calea spre care e predispus din na?tere: ca ?i înv???tura mult?, be?ia îl îngra?? pe cel gras ?i îl sl?be?te pe cel slab.

There is measure in all things.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man?s door, Embittering all his state.

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

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

There—you mean to eat? No, no—I hold with my blessed mentor, Hippocrates, that three quarters of the physical evils that beset mankind flow from eating too much, not too little.

If a man makes the world his castle, he does not seek to furnish it.