“That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul.”
John Muir
“Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs”
William Howard Stein
“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature”
Lucan
“Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.”
William Lloyd Garrison
“Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.”
