"Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance." - Chatham

"There is moderation even in excess." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit." - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues." - JOSEPH HALL, Christian Moderation

"We never repent of having eaten too little." - THOMAS JEFFERSON, A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life (in letter, 1825)

"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative." - HENRY A. KISSINGER, quoted in The Observer

"Men have made a virtue of moderation to limit the ambition of the great, and to console people of mediocrity for their want of fortune and of merit." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

"Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice." - THOMAS PAINE, Letter Addressed to the Addressers of the Late Proclamation

"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others." - DBERTRAND RUSSELL, Sceptical Essays

"Nothing in excess." - SOLON, quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers