A Quote by Seneca the Younger
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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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.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.
When leading people and serving Heaven, nothing exceeds moderation.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation, bring great evil upon men. Thus warneth you He Who is the All-Knowing. If carried to excess, civilization will prove as prolific a source of evil as it had been of goodness when kept within the restraints of moderation.
Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?
As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.
Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
Everything in moderation, including moderation.
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Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.
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