Moderation Principle Quotes

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

Everything in moderation, like calories.

I eat what I want but in moderation.

This might be the wrong answer, but I kind of just eat whatever I want in moderation.

I do everything in moderation.

I do everything in moderation and count everything... that includes my wine.

Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

I believe in everything in moderation, including exercise.

I eat in moderation and try not to worry about it.

There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.