Quotes about Moderation

Citing both the Buddha and Aristotle, Sachs makes the case for a "middle path," a path of moderation and balance between work and non-work (what he calls, quaintly in this day and age, "leisure"), savings and consumption, self-interest and compassion, individualism and citizenship.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

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

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

The minimalist life. Pleasure is an egg. Blessings that can be counted, on the fingers of one hand.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.