Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

We cannot play with fear nor with too much confidence.

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

There is moderation even in excess.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the common cause.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

Do not make too much haste on one's road.

Zeal should not outrun discretion.

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

Too much is the same as not enough.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.