Montesquieu Quotes

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

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

There is moderation in everything.

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

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

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

The best things are placed between extremes.

You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.

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.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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

Moderation shifts when extremes do.

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.

Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it.

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.

There is moderation even in excess.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

We're about moderation.

I believe in a balanced government. I don't believe in minimum or maximum. Balance is always the best way.

I live by 'Everything in moderation.'

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.

He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out.