Top Moderation Quotes
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry A. Kissinger
So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.
Kenneth H. Cooper
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
Joseph Lancaster
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Joseph Hall
Jean Paul 
Benjamin Disraeli 
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 
Tacitus 
Moliere 
Anne Sexton 
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A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Donald Trump 
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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
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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
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It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
Roberto Benigni
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The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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
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Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Popular Moderation Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldMark TwainOscar WildeLucius Annaeus SenecaMarcus Tullius CiceroBenjamin Disraeli Plato AristotleLord ByronEdmund BurkeCharles Caleb ColtonW. Somerset MaughamThomas Paine Epictetus Moliere
Henry A. KissingerJean PaulCat StevensJoseph Joubert TerenceJimmy BuffettLindsay LohanDonald TrumpCharles de Montesquieu TacitusJ. William FulbrightAlexander HamiltonRutherford B. HayesJohn W. SnowRobert Mondavi
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