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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Moderation |
| This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Cowley—Essays in Prose and Verse. Of Myself. (Trans. of Horace.) | 1 |
| Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues. Fuller—Holy and Profane States. Bk. III. Of Moderation. See also Bishop Hall—Christian Moderation. Introduction. | 2 |
| Aus Mässigkeit entspringt ein reines Glück. True happiness springs from moderation. Goethe—Die Naturliche Tochter. II. 5. 79. | 3 |
| Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula. Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. Horace—Carmina. II. 10. 5. | 4 |
| Est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum. There is a mean in all things; and, moreover, certain limits on either side of which right cannot be found. Horace—Satires. I. 1. 106. | 5 |
| The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers. La Rochefoucauld—Maxims. No. 18. | 6 |
| Le juste milieu. The proper mean. Phrase used by Louis Philippe in an address to the deputies of Gaillac. First occurs in a letter of Voltaire’s to Count d’Argental, Nov. 29, 1765. Also in Pascal—Pensées. | 7 |
| Medio tutissimus ibis. Safety lies in the middle course. Ovid—Metamorphoses. Bk. II. L. 136. | 8 |
| Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste. Ovid—Metamorphoses. Story of Phaeton. Bk. II. L. 147. Addison’s trans. | 9 |
| Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se. In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. Plautus—Pænulus. I. 2. 29. | 10 |
| He knows to live who keeps the middle state, And neither leans on this side nor on that. Pope—Bk. II. Satire II. L. 61. | 11 |
| Give me neither poverty nor riches. Proverbs. XXX. 8. | 12 |
| Souhaitez donc mediocrité. Wish then for mediocrity. Rabelais—Pantagruel. Bk. IV. Prologue. | 13 |
| Modica voluptas laxat animos et temperat. Moderate pleasure relaxes the spirit, and moderates it. Seneca—De Ira. II. 20. | 14 |
| Be moderate, be moderate. Why tell you me of moderation? The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste, And violenteth in a sense as strong As that which causeth it: how can I moderate it? Troilus and Cressida. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 1. | 15 |
| Bonarum rerum consuetudo pessima est. The too constant use even of good things is hurtful. Syrus—Maxims. | 16 |
| Id arbitror Adprime in vita esse utile, Ut ne quid minis. Excess in nothing,—this I regard as a principle of the highest value in life. Terence—Andria. I. 1. 33. | 17 |
| There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundless, And the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. Tupper—Proverbial Philosophy. Of Compensation. L. 15. | 18 |
| Give us enough but with a sparing hand. Waller—Reflections. | 19 |
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