Edna Ferber Quotes

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

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

Be not righteous overmuch.

In every extreme there is vice and not virtue.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

Virtue lies in the middle ground.

To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that, the ego disappears. The ego feeds on imbalance, the ego feeds on extremes. The ego lives on the polarities - in the middle it disappears. And in every area, in every direction of life, remember this: just stop in the middle and soon you will find the mind has stopped, the ego has stopped. Nothing to claim, it disappears. And when it disappears you have become virtuous. Now the door is open for the divine. In the middle you meet him; at the extremes you miss.

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.