How to Live a Good Life: Advice from Wise Persons
"Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences
of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet,
conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never
such that more of the something is always better than less of the something.
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum
value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value
is to be deprived."
- Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature, 1979
"Enough is as good as a feast."
English Proverb
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"Be moderate in order to taste the joys
of life in abundance."
Epicurus
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"To go beyond is as wrong as to fall
short."
Confucius, Analects
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"Joy and Temperance and Repose, slam the
door on the doctor's nose."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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