Quotes About Moderation

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Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more. —Milton Glaser

Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more. –Milton Glaser

Let's have a fiscally but not sexually conservative Valentine's Day

Don't pray for forgiveness for eating too much cake, just exercise more.

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.

It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

Let reason govern desire.