Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.

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

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

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

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.

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.

To use what has a boundary to pursue what is limitless is dangerous; with this knowledge, if we still go after knowledge, we will run into trouble. Do not do what is good in order to gain praise. If you do what is bad be sure to avoid the punishment. Follow the Middle Course, for this is the way to keep yourself together, to sustain your life, to care for your parents and to live for many years.

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise