Character Quote by Thomas Paine

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

— Thomas Paine

Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good…

— Thomas Paine

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

— Oscar Wilde

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

It does people good to have to do things they don't like in moderation.

— Anonymous

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

— Iris Murdoch

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

— Plato

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?

— Maya Angelou

“The notion of good and bad is only in people's minds for there is only virtue and excess. Happiness and wisdom are virtues, sadness…

— Insidious Nocturne

“Aristotle urged people to seek “the golden mean” between extremes, “moderation in all things” (which we interpret as including moderation in the pursuit of…

— Reid Hastie

Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.

— Duc De La Rochefoucals