Richard Cecil Quotes

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

There is moderation in everything.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

The best things are placed between extremes.

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

There is a middle ground in things.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.

Moderation shifts when extremes do.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

In everything the middle road is best.

Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

The solution, as always, is a union of the half truths drawn from the extremes

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

Keep a mid course between two extremes.