Book of Ecclesiastes Quotes

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

In every extreme there is vice and not virtue.

Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.

Moderation in all things..

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

There is moderation even in excess.

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

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Modesty is the color of virtue.