Quotes on moderation
My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.
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Edmund Burke Quotes
Everything in moderation, including moderation.
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Author Unknown Quotes
From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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Samuel Butler Quotes
It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.
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Aristotle Quotes
Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
Enough is as good as a feast.
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English Proverb Quotes
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
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William Wordsworth Quotes
Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.
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Edward Gorey Quotes
They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.
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Hindu Proverb Quotes
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
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Confucius Quotes
Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor?
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Epicurus Quotes
We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
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Don Marquis Quotes
No matter what happens... somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
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Dave Barry Quotes
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes