Maurice Blanchot Quotes

Too much is the same as not enough.

Where there is too much, something is missing.

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

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

As many suffer from too much as too little.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

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

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

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

Excess is the common substitute for energy.

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

Too much of something is never good.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

Less is even less, and more is still not quite enough.

In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

We make too much of the good and too much of the bad.

Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

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

Purity without balance is its own corruption.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.