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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. (Oscar Wilde)[][]
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. (Tupper)[][]
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. (Titus Maccius Plautus)[][]
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. (Plato)[][]
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. (Francois La Rochefoucauld)[][]
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet. (Joseph Hall)[][]
There is moderation even in excess. (Benjamin Disraeli)[][]
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. (Chatham)[][]
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