Quotes About Moderation

All positive traits, states, and experiences have costs that at high levels may begin to outweigh their benefits.

que criar a los niños en un entorno privilegiado es mucho más difícil de lo que nadie piensa», decía. «El potencial de uno se frustra al vivir con pocos medios. Pero la riqueza también frustra, porque se pierde la ambición, y de ahí el orgullo y el respeto por la valía de uno mismo. Las cosas son complicadas en los dos extremos. Supongo que lo mejor es un punto intermedio».

It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.

If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures.

The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style.

Modesty isn't always a virtue

Moderation leads to Mediocrity, Intensity leads to Excellence.

Those pizzas I ate were for medicinal purposes.

Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. [...] Too much water and you flowed in too many directions.

Nankingis on lumi nagu kõrge ametnik - ei käi liiga tihti, ei jää liiga kaukas

The living out in excess kills the imagination and the intensity

It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.

In measured doses, mortification cleanses the soul. It's the perfect antidote for excessive self-regard.

My goal is to stay safely in between self-analysis and self-destruction.

Because technology is devoted primarily to making our lives easier, it discourages us from disciplines, especially ones that involve disentangling ourselves from technology itself.

Thank God for the little things I do have, because I do not ask Him for much.

religious moderates are themselves the bearers of a terrible dogma: they imagine that the path to peace will be paved once each of us has learned to respect the unjustified beliefs of others.

By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. ( Essay on Tea , 1757.)

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

If you're an urgent thinker, you must ask yourself why you have to be so frantic about things. Force yourself to slow down—both mentally and physically. A leisurely pace creates a welcoming energy. Start to speak more calmly, drive more slowly, and eat more leisurely. Choose to enjoy the moment instead of racing through it.