Quotes About Moderation

Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

I think it's a bit excessive.

I just don't think it's healthy to only have one pursuit, even if it's a seemingly positive thing. You can do a positive thing to the nth degree, and it turns on you at some point. You become stuck.

You do not respond to a mosquito bite with a hammer.

if you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong

Austerity, if I were to define, I'll say, It's YOU.

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

Seneca's comment to Lucilius that "the man who adapts himself to his slender means and makes himself wealthy on a little sum, is the truly rich man.

There was also agreement that one wonderful way to tame our tendency to always want more is to persuade ourselves to want the things we already have.

Seneca reminds us how small our bodies are and poses this question: "Is it not madness and the wildest lunacy to desire so much when you can hold so little?

This, at any rate, is the advice Buddha gave to Anathapindika, a man of "unmeasurable wealth": "He that cleaves to wealth had better cast it away than allow his heart to be poisoned by it; but he who does not cleave to wealth, and possessing riches, uses them rightly, will be a blessing unto his fellows.

The Stoics' advocacy of sexual reserve will sound prudish to modern readers, but they had a point. We live in an age of sexual indulgence, and for many people the consequences of this indulgence have been catastrophic in terms of their peace of mind.

In the words of Epicurus, "Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little.

In the words of Epicurus, "Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little."2

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Enough! or too much.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.

The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.