Quotes About Moderation
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“To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.”
— Laozi —
“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”
— Thomas Paine
“The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility.
-Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy”
— Erik Larson
“And so this added consideration - that she never get pregnant - contributed to the moderation of their coupling, which was almost always managed under conditions harsh enough to win the approval of New England's founding fathers”
— John Irving
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Cameron Mathison
“It may well have been, too, that the smiling moderation with which she faced and answered these blasphemies, that this tender and hypocritical rebuke appeared to her frank and generous nature as a particularly shameful and seductive form of that criminal attitude towards life which she was endeavouring to adopt. But she could not resist the attraction of being treated with affection by a woman who had just shewn herself so implacable towards the defenceless dead; she sprang on to the knees of her friend and held out a chaste brow to be kissed; ...”
— Marcel Proust
“There is moderation even in excess.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.”
— Edmund Burke
“Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.”
— Mark Twain
— William Shakespeare
“If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually and as the society. To protect ourselves from extremisms, we have to maintain moderation.”
— Ali Sina
“He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.”
— Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
“Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point. Eventually their growth rate can diminish as results revert towards normal. Maybe not in all cases, but often enough to make a long-term bet. Bottom line: I wouldn't want to get caught in a rush for the exit, much less get left behind. Only when big growth stocks fall into the dumper from time to time am I inclined to pick them up - and even then, only in moderation.”
— John Neff
— Jennifer Aniston
“Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.”
— Euripides
“A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.”
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.”
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character ...”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
— Thomas B. Macaulay
“It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.”
— Herbert Spencer
“The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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