The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
It is better to rise from life as from a banquet — neither thirsty nor drunken.
The pursuit even of the best things ought to be calm And tranquil.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; But moderation in principle is always a vice.
GLUTTON n. A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
Moderation in all things.
Moderation is best in all things.