V. E. Schwab Quotes

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

Most virtue lies between two vices.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

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.

In every extreme there is vice and not virtue.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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

The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.

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

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

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.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

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

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

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Balance is overrated.

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

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

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.

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