Its best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken. – Aristotle

Balance is a dynamic, never dull process. – Kristina Turner, The Self-Healing Cookbook, 2002, originally published 1987

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this — that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor? – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)