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Alexander Hamilton1 quote
We, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society. This circumstance, if duly attended to, would furnish a lesson of moderation to those who are ever so much persuaded of their being in the right in any controversy. — Alexander Hamilton · 1787Benjamin Franklin1 quote
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy Meals. — Benjamin Franklin · 1733Oscar Wilde1 quote
Moderation is a fatal thing...Nothing succeeds like excess. — Oscar Wilde · 1893Thomas Paine1 quote
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. — Thomas Paine · 1792Voltaire1 quote
Use, do not abuse... Neither abstinence not excess ever renders man happy. — Voltaire · 1738William Lloyd Garrison1 quote
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation. — William Lloyd Garrison · 1831