Quotes About Moderation

Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion

Gluttony is, after all, one of the seven deadly sins, and it's not because it's associated with obesity, a threat to an individual's survival, but because it represents overconsumption to the point of wastefulness, a threat to an entire community. Today, a gluttony of consumption has become the norm.

My central argument is that getting drunk, high, or otherwise cognitively

Man wants but little, nor that little long.

Balance in everything secures and preserves you and others too; indeed, it also smooths life.

Life, without adopting discipline and limits, in all of its dimensions, becomes the victim of various diseases.

To understand limits and realize the discipline, constitute and facilitate a balanced and moderate journey of life; indeed, such skill and spirit, destine and embrace the privileges of success without obstacles.

Tokichiro replied very seriously, "I like both women and sake. Everything in the world is good. But if you're not careful, even good things can turn against you.

Fasting may not be as easy as feasting, but after a while it is not too different. Both are extremes. It is not hard to go the extreme way, but what is really difficult is neither to fast nor to feast, but to be moderate in everything we do.

Training the senses does not mean denying them or depriving them. It means educating them not to demand things that will cost us in health, security, or freedom. In training the senses, we don't forfeit anything in life of lasting value.

All we can do is constantly try to get back in balance.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

But as the late- seventeenth-century philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz said, 'To be neutral is rather like someone who lives in the middle of a house and is smoked out from below and drenched with urine from above.

A rich man, it is said, is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.

I concentrated on training myself to react little or not at all. I learned to reduce my emotions to the minimum.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

Seneca says: 'if we are situated in the midst of a noisy city, let there be a preceptor at our side to contradict those who laud vast incomes and to praise instead the man who is wealthy on little and who measures wealth by how it is used.

Las escuelas filosóficas debatían básicamente dos cuestiones. En general, si el vino había sido otorgado a los humanos para enloquecerles o por su bien y, en particular, si –como afirmaban los estoicos– el sabio podía beber sin límite, hasta caer dormido, antes de verse llevado a alguna necedad

De ahí la sobria ebrietas como meta, pues quien se educa en ella disfruta de la relajación con dignidad. Como añade Filón de Alejandría, «quienes no se permiten la ebriedad, y se consideran sobrios, son presa de las mismas emociones que el ebrio»

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

Usein käy niin, että liikoja puheitaan saa katua, mutta harvoin joutuu katumaan liian vähiä puheitaan.

A person who does think of his brain can't drink liquor or wine, feels often pain in life and remains away from women.