Not anything in excess, a translation from the Greek μηδὲν ἄγαν. "Nothing in excess" as inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
Source: Andria (The Lady of Andros), Line 61.
Ne quid nimis.
“Moderation in all things, especially moderation.”
“I think, as with all things, honor is best appreciated in moderation. As is cruelty.”
Source: Dark Age (2019), Ch. 92: Graveyard of Tyrants; Lysander
“As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism.”
Source: The Principles of Ethics (1897), Part III: The Ethics of Individual Life, Ch. 10, General Conclusions
Context: As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.
Interview with Mullah Omar - transcript http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1657368.stm, BBC News, 15 November 2001.
Moderation
“Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.”
Source: The Best of Myles (1968)
“Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
Lord Illingworth, Act III
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Letter to a "Friends of Temperance" society (9 December 1869); as quoted in Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1875) by John William Jones, p. 170
1860s
Plutarch Solon, ch. 27; translation by Bernadotte Perrin. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Sol.+27.1
As quoted in The Nastiest Things Ever Said about Republicans (2006) by Martin Higgins, p. 131
