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Quotes about moderation
It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken. (Aristotle )
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. (Aristotle )
There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. (Aristotle )
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. (Aristotle )
My God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation! (Aristotle )
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. (Aristotle )
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. (Aristotle )
Out of moderation a pure happiness springs. (Aristotle )
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. (Aristotle )
There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth. (Aristotle )
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. (Aristotle )
Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit. (Aristotle )
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character. (Aristotle )
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything. (Aristotle )
Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes. (Aristotle )
Keep a mid course between two extremes. (Aristotle )
You will go most safely in the middle. (Aristotle )
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. (Aristotle )
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. (Aristotle )
Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm. (Aristotle )
Let not turn fun to mischief. (Aristotle )
Moderate profits fill the purse. (Aristotle )
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. (Aristotle )
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. (Aristotle )
He who drinks a glass a day shall live to die another way. (Aristotle )
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