A Quote by Horace

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

Horace

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Avoiding Extreme Fools Opposite Rush Vice

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Horace
Roman - Poet
65 BC - 8 BC

When fools rush in, rush out.

Brian Jett

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

Eric Hoffer

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

Henry David Thoreau

The Internet bubble circa 2000 is the most extreme in modern capitalism. In the 1930s, we had the worst depression in 600 years. Today is almost as extreme in the opposite way.

Charlie Munger

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

Narayanananda Swami.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Angels rush in when fools are almost dead.

Rudolph Fisher

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

Antoine Rivarol

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

Joseph Hall

Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.

Cary Grant

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

Laurence J. Peter

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Alexander Pope

I go back to [the idea] that we are avoiding all of these unknowns, we're avoiding the night - most of us - we're avoiding the encounters, but we're also afraid to deal with something unknown, unseen.

Michal Rovner

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.

Baltasar Gracian

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