The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
John Arbuthnot Fisher

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.
Artie Lange

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
Charles de Montesquieu

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

There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
J. William Fulbright

There is moderation even in excess.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
John Ciardi

This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.
Robert Mondavi

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Democritus

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

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark Twain

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
Rutherford B. Hayes

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

We're about moderation.
Jenny Craig

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Alexander Hamilton

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke