#moderation

Remember that you must behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought round to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation.

Curb your desires, don't set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.

If you would not be of an angry temper, do not feed your habit; give it nothing which may increase the disorder.

He uses moderate exertion in all things. If he appears foolish or ignorant, he does not care.

Nature has given us one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

The body is to everyone the measure of the possessions proper for it, just as the foot is of the shoe.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

The Master avoids excess, extravagance, and complacency.

Other men live to eat, while I eat only to live.

May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as a temperate man and he alone can bear and carry.

Temperance is the health of the soul; without it, all other virtues are as water poured into a broken sieve.

In all things moderation is best; for excess and deficiency alike ruin virtue.

It is easy to fly into a passion—anybody can do that; but to be angry with the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not easy.

Moderation has been made a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console mediocre people for their lack of fortune and merit.

Moderation in good fortune is only apprehension of the shame that attends upon intoxication with success.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

The real seat of taste is not the tongue, but the mind.

The middle path avoids all painful extremes.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Misfortune enters through the mouth; disease enters through the mouth.

Nothing in excess; the golden middle path is the sanctuary of virtue.

The frog does not drink up the entire pond in which it makes its home.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.