“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
Aristotle
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice”
Thomas Paine
“Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.”
Francois Fenelon
“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”
“Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.”
Michel de Montaigne
