"If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
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"If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks."
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"To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity."
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"Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all."
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"Moderation in all things, especially moderation."
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"Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful."
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"A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty"
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"Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation."
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"Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast."
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"Most safely shall you tread the middle path."
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"Keep a mid course between two extremes."
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"If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion."
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"That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue."
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"True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]"
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"Out of moderation a pure happiness springs."
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"Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved."
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"Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it."
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"True happiness springs from moderation."
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"It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself."
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