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The
person who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon him-
or herself, and not upon other people, has adopted the very best
plan for living happily. This is the person of moderation, the one
of high character and of wisdom.
Plato
Everything that exceeds the
bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
Seneca
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Health
is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a
sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical
or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is
through moderation, harmony, and a "sound mind in a
sound body."
Jostein Gaarder
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Moderation
is the inseparable companion of wisdom,
but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Charles Caleb Colton
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For
governing a country well there is nothing better than
moderation. The mark of moderate persons is freedom from their own
ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like
sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the
wind, they have no destination in view and make use of
anything life happens to bring their way. Nothing is
impossible for them. Because they have let go, they
can care for the people's welfare as a mother cares for
her child.
Lao Tzu
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The
heart is great which shows moderation
in the midst of prosperity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Out
of moderation a pure happiness springs.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
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Follow the
wisdom provided by
nature. Everything in moderation--
sunlight, water, nutrients. Too
much of a good thing will topple
your structure. You can't harvest
what you don't sow. So plant your
desires, gently nurture them,
and they will be rewarded
with abundance.
Vivian Elizabeth Glyck
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Moderation
sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that
in the eye
of the immoderate it appears black and
sober and consequently
ugly-looking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
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It's
best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.
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Moderation is the silken string running through the
pearl chain of all virtues.
Joseph Hall
also:
Those who know when they have enough are wealthy. The
silken cord running through the chain of all virtues is moderation.
Fred Van Amburgh
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When you eat too much,
you forget your truth,
and fasting makes
you conceited,
so eat with some discipline,
and consciously. Be
an ordinary human being.
Then the door will open,
and
you'll recognize the way. Lalla, be moderate!
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They will always be slaves who do not know how to
live upon a little.
Horace
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It
is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness,
and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Seneca
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The decent
moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow.
At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense
and of the
good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a
number
of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously
demanded that they should burn none at all.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Be
studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious
and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you
will
be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
At least,
you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such
consequences.
Benjamin
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Innocent
pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body
and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But
pleasure,
per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of
fulfillment. The
pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level
of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next
new pleasure
has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger
"high." A
person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic,
interpreting all
of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and
now.
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Balance
recognizes that many good things in life are good only
in moderation. There really can be too much of something wonderful.
Most virtues, taken to excess become vices. When an interest,
affection, or endeavor becomes utterly consuming, it doesn't
allow room for other kinds of goodness.
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To go
beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep
within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous
extremes--
to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.
Blaise Pascal |
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A
sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others
from a wider reference. . . it pardons shortcomings;
it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
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If you don't
have enough you won't be happy. Neither are you
happy if you have too much. It is those who have enough
but not too much who are the happiest.
Peace Pilgrim |
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There
is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and
short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the
golden
mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace |
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Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to
acquire
all the good which the world can yield.
Timothy Dwight |
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All
excess brings on its own punishment. Moderation is
the inseparable companion of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton |
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Temperance
is moderation in the things that are good and total
abstinence from the things that are foul.
Frances E. Willard |
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Moderation
in temper is always a virtue;
but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine |
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Abstinence
is a path of choosing between profound suffering or abject
failure. Moderation is a more humane choice. Abstinence
is a perpetual
cycle of holiness, misery and corruption. Balance brings
more fulfillment and less suffering.
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Moderation?
It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's
dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling
compromise that
makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for
the
fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those
afraid to laugh
or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation. . . is lukewarm
tea,
the devil's own brew.
Dan Millman |
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Excess on occasion is
exhilarating. It prevents moderation
from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
William Somerset Maugham |
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