Top Moderation Quotes
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry A. Kissinger
So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.
Kenneth H. Cooper
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
Joseph Lancaster
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Joseph Hall
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle 
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Francois Fenelon
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If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Epictetus
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
Tacitus
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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
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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
John Arbuthnot Fisher
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Francois de La RochefoucauldMark TwainOscar WildeLucius Annaeus SenecaMarcus Tullius CiceroBenjamin Disraeli Plato AristotleLord ByronEdmund BurkeCharles Caleb ColtonW. Somerset MaughamThomas Paine Epictetus Moliere
Henry A. KissingerJean PaulCat StevensJoseph Joubert TerenceJimmy BuffettLindsay LohanDonald TrumpCharles de Montesquieu TacitusJ. William FulbrightAlexander HamiltonRutherford B. HayesJohn W. SnowRobert Mondavi
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