Paul Valery Quotes

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.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

The only hope for the Middle East is for moderates to win.

Good government is the result of popular and anti-popular principles blended together, rather than of the mere ascendency of either; the aim, therefore, is to prevent either from going too far.

Life is about balance. You don't want to live out of whack over here or out of whack over here. I want to win and be well compensated, and I think there's a balance to find. It doesn't have to be one extreme or the other.

I'm a really extreme person, and balance is probably the hardest thing for me to maintain.

If you're too high, it can hurt you. If you're too low, it can hurt you. I try to stay even-keel.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

I am dealing with people with both sides. I see people who are liberating themselves but they want to forget the world. And I see people who want to liberate the world but they forget themselves. Neither is the way I want to go.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

All extremes are dangerous.

Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

The best things are placed between extremes.

I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.

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

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

Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.

As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.

Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.