Quotes About Moderation

Do not tell lies against your mother, the magistrates abhor it. The descendant who does what is good. His actions all emulate the past. Do not consort with a rowdy. It harms you when one hears of it. If you have eaten three loaves, drunk two jugs of beer, and the belly is not sated, restrain it! When another eats, don't stand there, beware of rushing to the table!

When you drink with a drunkard. Take when his heart is content. THE INSTRUCTION ADDRESSED TO KAGEMNI Papyrus Prisse, pp. 1-2 Fragment

Rightly filled justice neither falls short nor brims over.

The cardinal virtues are self-control, moderation, kindness, generosity, justice, and truthfulness tempered by discretion

Never eat more than you can lift.

Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

Good sense avoids all extremes, and requires us to be soberly rational. This unbending and virtuous stiffness of ancient times shocks too much the ordinary customs of our own; it requires too great perfection from us mortals; we must yield to the times without being too stubborn; it is the height of folly to busy ourselves in correcting the world.

Die Tugend, deren die Gesellschaft bedarf, ist die Umgänglichkeit; zuviel Gesinnung kann durchaus tadelnswert sein; vollkommene Vernunft vermeidet alle extremen Einstellungen

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

One must eat to live and not live to eat.

A single task won't crush your spirit. Give yourself a break

Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

Everything has a tax, and the tax for the bodies is recommended fasting.

You will feel eternity in life if you find the balance of your own balance and self-control.

All I can say is that effective communication is the cure for any relationship. At the same time, overdoing it will ruin everything.

Diplomacy is beautiful, but it must also follow the famous maxim of nothing in excess.