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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

Roberto Benigni

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

Joseph Hall

It speaks volumes for a person that when placed in quite different situations, they display the same spirit of moderation.

Unknown

Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.

Unknown

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Anne Sexton

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

John Arbuthnot Fisher

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

Artie Lange

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Charles de Montesquieu

Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature.

Lucan Lucan

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Lord Byron

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Thomas Paine

Whatever you do, do it in moderation.

Proverb

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Democritus

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

Plato

There is moderation even in excess.

Benjamin Disraeli

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Benjamin Disraeli

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.

Benjamin Disraeli

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Lord Byron

When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you.

Husayn ibn

Respect for mother and father is good, generosity to friends, acquaintances, relatives, Brahmans and ascetics is good, not killing living beings is good, moderation in spending and moderation in saving is good. The Council shall notify the Yuktas about the observance of these instructions in these very words.

Ashoka the Great

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead

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