Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

Sometimes it's good to know there are limits.

Most people have an off switch and they choose when to go all out.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

May we never let the things we can't have or don't have or shouldn't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you. Withhold thy throat from thirst. Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. ... let not the Circean cup intoxicate you.

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

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

I believe that everything in moderation is best.

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.

Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.

There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop