Jean Paul Quotes

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

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

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

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

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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

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

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

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

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

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.

Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

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 what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

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

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.