moderation Quotes

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

Adjust your desires to what you can currently afford. Only increase them when you have more resources.

Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is... ...

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the... ...

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess... ...

We praise someone who gets angry for the right reasons, at the right people, in the right way, at the right time, and for the right duration.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.