Quotes about Moderation

Appetite must not be your god.

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

All diets are wholesome. Some are wholesomer than others, but all the ordinary diets are wholesome enough for the people who use them. Whether the food be fine or coarse it will taste good and it will nourish if a watch be kept upon the appetite and a little starvation introduced every time it weakens.

When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

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

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

One who understands the limits of the good life knows that what eliminates the pains brought on by need and what makes the whole of life perfect is easily obtained, so that there is no need for enterprises that entail the struggle for success.19

It does people good to have to do things they don't like...in moderation.

Her advice is much like pepper, I think . . . excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses.

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

Short is the way from need to greed.