NIHIL NIMIS

Nihil nimis!

- This Latin expression, which in Greek sounds like “medén ágan” and means “nothing in excess”!
It's a principle that can be applied to many aspects of life, including work, relationships and personal habits. By following this principle, we can avoid excesses in any area and maintain a healthy balance in our lives. A call for moderation, ultimately.

- “Nihil” in Latin, as we well know, means “nothing” and “nimis” is an adverb of quantity that translates as “too much”. The expression “nothing in excess, nothing in excess” was a rule of conduct in the classical world and continues to be for everyone an ideal of moderation in which virtue resides. The motto “nothing much” is one of the most exquisite qualities of the Hellenic spirit: moderation. There are those who attribute the expression to Critias of Athens, Plato's uncle, and it was engraved on the frontispiece of the Delphi temple, next to the famous “know yourself”. Remembering having read that the full verse was: «Nothing much, that everything that is beautiful is linked to convenience».

-From «nothing in excess» comes the «golden mediocritas», the golden mediocrity of Horace's odes and which Friar Luis de León translated as «medianía», because apparently the term «mediocrity» was already discredited.