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Keep a mid course between two extremes.
Ovid
You will go most safely in the middle.
Let not turn fun to mischief.
Proverb
O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
Plato
That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.
Vera Johnson
There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
John Ciardi
Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
Jean Paul
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
Everything in moderation -- including moderation.
Harvey Steiman
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
Blaise Pascal
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Charles Caleb Colton
