Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it.

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want.

Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.

We're about moderation.

Everything in moderation.

I do everything in moderation.

Allow yourself a few parties, but be mindful the rest of the time.

It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.

I live by 'Everything in moderation.'

Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.

To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.