There should be moderation in all things.
-Apocrypha
There is a proper measure in all things,
certain limits beyond with and short of which
right is not to be found.
-Horace
Anything that exceeds the bounds of moderation
has an unstable foundation.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The point in life
is to know what's enough.
-Gensei
The greatness of the human soul
is shown by knowing how
to keep within proper bounds.
-Blaise Pascal
The true boundary of man
is moderation.
-Owen Feltham
The choicest pleasures of life
lie within the ring of moderation.
-Martin Farquhar Tupper
Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
-Hosea Ballou
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation,
the greatest pleasures cease to please.
-Epictetus
If a man oversteps the limits of moderation,
he pollutes his body and mind.
-Inazo Nitobe
Nothing too much.
-Delphic Oracle
If you have too much of anything,
you cannot know yourself.
-Bhagavan Das
To learn moderation
is the essence of sound sense and real wisdom.
-Jacques Benigue Bossuet
Total abstinence
is easier than perfect moderation.
-Augustine of Hippo
Moderation increases the strength of the strong
and preserves the strength of the weak.
-Mirra Alfassa, "The Mother"
Moderation is the silken string
running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
-Joseph Hall
Moderation is the only virtue.
The other so-called virtues are virtuous
only in so far as they are joined with moderation.
-Charlton Ogburn, Jr.
In all things, even in joy, moderation is desirable,
for our inner life is also governed by the laws of equilibrium.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Moderation is a virtue
only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
-Henry Kissinger
Moderation is temper is always a virtue;
but moderation in principle is always a vice.
-Thomas Paine
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom,
but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
-Charles Caleb Colton
Temperance is a bridle of gold;
he who uses it rightly is more like a god than a man.
-Robert Burton
Let moderation be your keynote
in all things.
-Christian Larson
Moderation in all things
including moderation.
-Attributed to Petronius