Rick Riordan Quotes

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

… 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?

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

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

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Extremes are dangerous.

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.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

In every extreme there is vice and not virtue.

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

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

All extremes are dangerous.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.

Purity without balance is its own corruption.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

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.