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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all. - Amos Bronson Alcott It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. - Aristotle All the operations of Nature are gradual. - Francis Bacon Moderation is the key-note of lasting enjoyment. - Hosea Ballou Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXX, v. 7-9) There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers. - Christian Nestell Bovee 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. - 1st Earl of Chatham, William Pitt The most haste, ever the worst speed. - Charles Churchill To live long, it is necessary to live slowly. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. - Charles Caleb Colton The superior man wishes to be slow in his words and earnest in his conduct. - Confucius This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. - Abraham Cowley, Essays in Prose and Verse--Of Myself, (translation of Horace) Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. - Democritus The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us. - Owen Felltham (Feltham) Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues. - Thomas Fuller (1), Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Moderation) Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Naturliche Tochter (II, 5, 79) Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. - Joseph Hall Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (II, 10, 5) There is a mean in all things; and, moreover, certain limits on either side of which right cannot be found. [Lat., Est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines; Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (I, 1, 106) Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved. - Joseph Joubert Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims (no. 18) The proper mean. [Fr., Le juste milieu.] - Louis Philippe ("Roi Citoyen" "The Citizan King"), phrase used in an address to the deputies of Gaillac Displaying page 1 of 3 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3
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