Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, but temper and moderation generally produce permanence in all things. Seneca

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• power
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Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. Benjamin Franklin

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Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. Benjamin Franklin

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Practice moderation and balance in all that you do. John Wooden

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Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now. Stephen Covey

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• fun
• joy

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In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite. Timothy Ferriss

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If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. Epictetus

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