ખરેખર આ પણ અતિરેક છે કે તું જ્યારે પણ તને ઈચ્છા થાય ત્યારે ખાઈ લે.
Indeed, it is an excess to eat whenever you feel an urge.
Indeed, it is an excess to eat whenever you feel an urge.
I do not fear poverty for you, but rather I fear the abundance of wealth for you.
Whoever is accustomed to excessive eating and drinking becomes hard-hearted.
Do not laugh excessively, for it will diminish your dignity; and do not joke excessively, for people will begin to take you lightly.
When you praise someone, be brief.
Generosity without extravagance and humility without harm are part of moderation.
Moderation is half of livelihood, and good character is half of faith.
Moderation increases what is little.
Excessive talking tires the ears.
Indeed, generosity has a measure, and if it exceeds it, it becomes extravagance.
Moderation is sufficiency.
Indeed, wasting the means of sustenance is also a form of corruption.
If people practiced moderation in eating, their bodies would remain healthy.
O my dear son! Do not be aggressive toward people lest they hate you, do not be so meek that they humiliate you, do not be so sweet that they swallow you whole, and do not be so bitter that they spit you out.
Good health and insatiable greed do not coexist.
How can the thoughts of one whose stomach is constantly full ever become pure?
Among the most detestable things in the sight of God are eating without hunger, sleeping without staying awake, and laughing without reason.
There is no greater ignorance than exceeding one's limits.
The best of matters is the middle course.
Let not your poverty lead to disbelief, nor your wealth lead to transgression.
Stop eating while you still have some appetite left; doing so will make your food wholesome and pleasant.
The health of the body lies in a restrained diet.
Regarding the lowest form of wastefulness: wearing your fine clothes like everyday garments, throwing away leftover food or drink, and eating dates while tossing their seeds here and there.
Abandon extravagance, for the spendthrift is neither praised for his generosity nor pitied in his poverty.
Generosity has a measure; if it exceeds that, it becomes extravagance. Caution has a measure; if it exceeds that, it becomes cowardice. Frugality has a measure; if it exceeds that, it becomes miserliness. Courage has a measure; if it exceeds that, it becomes recklessness.
What is destined for you will not pass you by, so be moderate in pursuing it.
Whoever adopts moderation will find it easy to earn a livelihood.
Indeed, the stubbornness of gluttony, the lethargy of luxury, the intoxication of fullness, and the pride of power are things that distance one from good deeds, make one sluggish, cause one to forget remembrance, and make one heedless of how near death is.