Moderation

The avoidance of extremes in one’s actions or opinions.

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"Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation."
Benjamin Franklin

"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
St. Augustine

"Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind."
Francois de Salignac Fenelon

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

"Moderation is best, and to avoid all extremes"
Plutarch

"Going beyond is as bad as falling short."
Chinese Proverb

"To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity."
Blaise Pascal

"It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken."
Aristotle

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

"Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm."
Jean Paul Richter

"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul."
Frances E. Willard

"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
Martin Tupper

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

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