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.


Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.


Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.


Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.


Everything in moderation — including moderation.


He who drinks a glass a day shall live to die another way.


He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.


It is better to rise from life as from a banquet — neither thirsty nor drunken.


It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.


It speaks volumes for a person that when placed in quite different situations, they display the same spirit of moderation.


It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.


Keep a mid course between two extremes.


Let not turn fun to mischief.


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.


Moderate profits fill the purse.


Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.


Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.


Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.


Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.


Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

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