Editing Moderation (section)

=== Ancient Greece ===
{{main|Golden mean (philosophy)}}
Moderation is also a principle of life. In ancient Greece, the temple of Apollo at [[Delphi]] bore the inscription {{transliteration|grc|Meden Agan}} ({{lang|grc|μηδὲν ἄγαν}})—"Nothing in excess". Doing something "in moderation" means not doing it excessively. For instance, someone who moderates their food consumption tries to eat all food groups, but limits their intake of those that may cause deleterious effects to harmless levels.

According to the [[history of science and technology|historian]] and [[sociology of science|sociologist of science]] [[Steven Shapin]]:<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Steven Shapin|last=Shapin|first=Steven|year=2010|title=Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority|edition=2nd|publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]]|page=245|isbn=978-0801894213}}</ref>
{{Block quote|From the [[Pre-Socratic philosophy|pre-Socratics]] through the [[Hippocrates|Hippocratic]] and [[Galen|Galenic]] corpus, and in the writings of such [[Stoicism|Stoic]] philosophers as [[Epictetus]] and [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]], health was seen to flow from observing ''moderation''—in exercise, in study, and in diet.}}