Term

Moderation

The ability to avoid extremes — neither austerity nor excess — holding the middle ground and never letting one passion take over your whole life.

Essays, Michel de Montaigne

Explained in

• Essays, Michel de Montaigne
• Letters from a Stoic, Seneca

  The ability to be content with what you need and stop chasing more; not self-denial for its own sake, but freedom from the endless craving for extra.

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