Mark Manson Quotes

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

There is moderation even in excess.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

I can't do anything in moderation.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

I think an excess of anything is bad, be it mobile phones, social media, private tuitions or watching television.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.