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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Justice
Aristotle

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Abstinence
St. Augustine

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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Moderation
St. Augustine

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There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
Moderation
John Ciardi

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My God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!
Moderation
Robert Clive

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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Detail
Francois FeNelon

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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
Moderation
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.
Moderation
Vera Johnson

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

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Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
Moderation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
Moderation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Apathy
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
Moderation
Klemens Von Metternich

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
Wisdom
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
Law and Lawyers
Charles De Montesquieu

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

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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
Moderation
Blaise Pascal

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Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
Moderation
Jean Paul

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Everything in moderation -- including moderation.
Moderation
Harvey Steiman

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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
Moderation
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Mark Twain

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Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.
Moderation
Source Unknown

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Moderation
Oscar Wilde

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