A Commonplace Book

Category: moderation...

  • striving for moderation in all things edible
  • Go through the Bible: You will discover that those who requested moderation never had their prayers rejected. (F. Rabelais)
  • Moderation is a fatal thing... Nothing succeeds like excess. (O. Wilde)
  • If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasure cease to please. (Epictetus)
  • Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit. (W. Somerset Maugham)
  • Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly. (M de Montaigne)
  • Moderation in all things (Hesiod)
  • Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. (Barry Goldwater)
  • I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. (William Lloyd Garrison)

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