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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Joseph Hall (1574-1656) Bishop of Norwich.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry Kissinger (b.1923) American adviser on international affairs.
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the rav-isher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.
Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
Prince Mettenich (1773-1859) Austrian statesman.
Moderation in people who are contented comes from the calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
My God, Mr Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Cicero.
Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared, in whatever situation he is, therewith to be content; has learned the science of being happy; and possesses the alchemic stone which changes every metal into gold.
T.Dwight.
It is certainly a very important lesson, to learn how to enjoy ordinary things, and to be able to relish your being, without the transport of some passion, or the gratification of some appetite.
Steele.
There is a German proverb which says that “Take it easy” and “Live long,” are brothers.
Bovee.
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
Shakespeare.
Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self acquaintance.
Lord Chatham.
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
Cicero.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. So far from greatness consisting in going beyond its limits, it really consists in keeping within them.
Pascal.
I knew a wise man who had for a byword, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, “stay a little that we may come to the end sooner.”
Bacon.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Colton.
Howsoever varied the course of our life, whatsoever the phase of pleasure and ambition through which it has swept along, still, when in memory we would revive the times that were comparatively the happiest, those times will be found to have been the calmest.
Bulwer.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest. We are not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys.
Bovee.
I will not be a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the most heavy of all servitudes; and this end I may gain by moderate desires.
Seneca.
The true boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale, our guardian angel quits his charge of us.
Feltham.
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Bp.Hall.
Moderation must not claim the merit of combating and conquering ambition; for they can never exist in the same subject. Moderation is the languor and sloth of the soul; ambition its activity and ardor.
Rochefoucauld.
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
Richter.
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
Livy.
Joseph Hall (1574-1656) Bishop of Norwich.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry Kissinger (b.1923) American adviser on international affairs.
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the rav-isher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.
Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
Prince Mettenich (1773-1859) Austrian statesman.
Moderation in people who are contented comes from the calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
My God, Mr Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Cicero.
Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared, in whatever situation he is, therewith to be content; has learned the science of being happy; and possesses the alchemic stone which changes every metal into gold.
T.Dwight.
It is certainly a very important lesson, to learn how to enjoy ordinary things, and to be able to relish your being, without the transport of some passion, or the gratification of some appetite.
Steele.
There is a German proverb which says that “Take it easy” and “Live long,” are brothers.
Bovee.
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
Shakespeare.
Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self acquaintance.
Lord Chatham.
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
Cicero.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. So far from greatness consisting in going beyond its limits, it really consists in keeping within them.
Pascal.
I knew a wise man who had for a byword, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, “stay a little that we may come to the end sooner.”
Bacon.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Colton.
Howsoever varied the course of our life, whatsoever the phase of pleasure and ambition through which it has swept along, still, when in memory we would revive the times that were comparatively the happiest, those times will be found to have been the calmest.
Bulwer.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest. We are not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys.
Bovee.
I will not be a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the most heavy of all servitudes; and this end I may gain by moderate desires.
Seneca.
The true boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale, our guardian angel quits his charge of us.
Feltham.
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Bp.Hall.
Moderation must not claim the merit of combating and conquering ambition; for they can never exist in the same subject. Moderation is the languor and sloth of the soul; ambition its activity and ardor.
Rochefoucauld.
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
Richter.
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
Livy.
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