Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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

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

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

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.

We've led pretty wholesome lives. We haven't lived life to excess like so many groups have done.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.

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

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

There is moderation even in excess.