Quotes about Moderation

Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance.

And then he prayed, "God, I'm asking for two things before I die; don't refuse me—Banish lies from my lips and liars from my presence. Give me enough food to live on, neither too much nor too little. If I'm too full, I might get independent, saying, 'God? Who needs him?' If I'm poor, I might steal and dishonor the name of my God.

When you grab all you can get, that's what happens: the more you get, the less you are.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Every virtue that reaches the exaggeration, is becoming a defect

John Calvin wrote, "The evil in our desire typically does not lie in what we want, but in that we want it too much.

I'm not for the left wing or the right wing--I'm for the whole bird.