Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
quote by Thomas Paine
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
quote by Blaise Pascal
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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 always a vice.
Thomas Paine in The Rights of Man (1792)
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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 always a vice.
quote by Thomas Paine
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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 always a vice.
quote by Thomas Paine
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
quote by Francois Fenelon
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So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
quote by Minoru Yamasaki
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Habits
Habits interest my cruelty,
Going like second nature
And the memory of size.
Through reason is happiness
Thrilling, winning and wonderful
To obsess.
Why do habits be so ancient?
And is there ending to few of them
That it is faced by them,
That I myself can have it anyway?
What? The habit. The habit.
Is it custom to endanger us with the wrong
Habits?
poem by Naveed Akram
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
quote by W. Somerset Maugham
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
quote by Henry Kissinger
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
quote by Barry Goldwater
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
quote by Barry Goldwater
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
quote by Edmund Burke
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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.
quote by Benjamin Disraeli
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The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.
quote by Artie Lange
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