Horace Quotes

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

The best things are placed between extremes.

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

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

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.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.

In everything the middle road is best.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

There is moderation in everything.

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

You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.

There is a middle ground in things.

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

Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

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

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

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.

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

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

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

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.