(317 quotes found)
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
Oscar Wilde
“Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains”
Democritus
“The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.”
Seneca
“Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.”
Saint Augustine
“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.”
William Londen
“Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
Aristotle
“Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.”
Francois Fenelon
“Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.”
Plato
“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice”
Thomas Paine
