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  • I feel like you can eat everything that you want in moderation.

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  • I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.

  • A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

    Wise   Patience   Wisdom  
  • To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.

  • If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or contact with nature. Also we would not spend time with other people. There are a lot of plusses to reading - it's an interactive brain workout - but like everything else that's beneficial in moderation, overdoses can be dangerous.

    Workout   Book   Reading  
  • My whole mentality is that I eat what I want within moderation, and I have a little bit of everything. If you deprive yourself, you get moody and unhappy, and you have to enjoy life.

  • Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

    Food   Evil   Moderation  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.77, 谷月社
  • I eat what I want but in moderation.

  • To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both."—Bacon: "Advancement of Learning".

    Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.2, Harvard University Press
  • All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.

    Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

    War   Essence   Violence  
  • Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

    Beautiful   Eye   Black  
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.167, Cambridge University Press
  • Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

    Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2944, Delphi Classics
  • If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

  • It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

  • You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

    Mean   Long   Littles  
  • Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]

  • Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

    Generosity   Done   Half  
  • The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

  • I try to eat well, but I don't deny myself the foods I love. I just eat them in moderation.

    "Actor Regina King: Divorce as a journey, staying a family and mind over matter". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.

    Weed   Stress   Marijuana  
  • There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

    Knowledge   Mean   Sea  
  • If you embrace moderation, eat whole foods instead of junk, live within your physical, monetary, and environmental budget rather than constantly exceeding it, you will lose weight, tread more lightly on the planet, and gain satisfaction from these things.

    Mark Bittman (2008). “Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes”, p.79, Simon and Schuster
  • I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

  • Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

    Fall   Greatness   Envy  
  • [...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

    Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war”, p.8, Aegitas
  • Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.

    Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
  • I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...I now feel that smoking in moderation is a comfortable and laudable practice, and is productive of good. There is no more harm in a pipe than in a cup of tea. You may poison yourself by drinking too much green tea, and kill yourself by eating too many beefsteaks. For my part, I consider that tobacco, in moderation, is a sweetener and equalizer of the temper.

  • In my individual heart I fully believe my faith is as robust as yours. The trouble with your robust and full bodied faiths, however, is, that they begin to cut each others throats too soon, and for getting on in the world and establishing a modus vivendi these pestilential refinements and reasonablenesses and moderations have to creep in.

    Believe   Heart   Cutting  
    Letter to John Jay Chapman, April 5, 1897.
  • Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. *Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*

    Keys   Long   Moderation  
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