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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. (Saint Augustine)

Modesty is the conscience of the body. (Honore de Balzac)

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down. (Aneurin Bevan)

Moderation is a beautiful thing when extremes, although they exist, are the exception and not the rule. (Kelly Borsheim)

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. (Charles Caleb Colton)

The Great Chief also honours modesy. (David Daniels)

There is moderation even in excess. (Benjamin Disraeli)

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. (Edna Ferber)

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme. (Paul Gauguin)

I'm a believer in moderation in all things, including moderation. (Robert Genn)

Everything in excess is opposed to nature. (Hippocrates)

The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half. (Eric Maisel)

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. (W. Somerset Maugham)

-The Forgotten Garden...
Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say? (Kate Morton)

Most safely shall you tread the middle path. (Ovid)

In everything the middle road is best. (Plautus)

Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. (Turkish proverb)

Only actions give life its strength, as only moderation gives it its charm. (Jean Paul Richter)

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. (Jim Rohn)

-b.ca.4 BC d.ca.AD 65...
You can end love more easily than you can moderate it. (Seneca)

Avoid extremes: be moderate / In saving and in spending; / An equable and easy gait / Will win an easy ending. (Robert W. Service)

There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil. (H. Allen Smith)

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. (Mark Twain)

One who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. (Lao Tzu)

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. (Voltaire)

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. (Oscar Wilde)


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