Moderation Quotes
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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
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Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.
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Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline and moderation. Explorations among the ruins of the remote past have carried curious men all over the face of the earth… Yet in truth, no science is more adventurous than archaeology, if adventure is thought of as a mixture of spirit and deed.
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But God never seems capable of moderation
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Most men are not kept within the bounds of moderation by mere admonition, or even by example; it is absolutely necessary to punish them by disfranchisement, by exile, or by death.
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Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.
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I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight
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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.
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I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.
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If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
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Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.
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In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work
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My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.
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Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?
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I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.
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But the fact is that when wine is taken in moderation, it gives rise to a large amount of breath, whose character is balanced, and whose luminosity is strong and brilliant. Hence wine disposes greatly to gladness, and the person is subject to quite trivial exciting agents. The breath now takes up the impression of agents belonging to the present time more easily than it does those which relate to the future; it responds to agents conducive to delight rather than those conducive to a sense of beauty.
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The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.
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I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'
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I'm not the athlete I was when I was training for the Olympics in '92 or when I was working out every single day. I have to live in moderation: I work out three or four days a week, and I smile while I'm working out - I really do enjoy it. I work out with my girlfriends and make it a social competition.
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Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.
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Moderation, which consists in 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.
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Don't overdo the booze especially while flying - just because it's there doesn't mean you need to drink it. Everything in moderation.
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Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.
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We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.
