A Quote by Francois Fenelon
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.
Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.
A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.
Moderation shifts when extremes do.
All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.
Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that I received from the electorate, I am committed to operating in the framework of moderation, which calls inter alia for a balance between realism and the pursuit of the ideals of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Virtues, of ...
Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.
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