A Quote by Moliere

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

Moliere

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Moliere
French - Playwright
January 15, 1622 - February 17, 1673

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

Moliere

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Moliere

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

Samuel Johnson

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

Benjamin Franklin

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dudley Warner

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

Maya Angelou

You have to look at the reality in Syria. Whenever we liberate any city or village from the terrorists, the civilians will go back to the city, while they flee that city when the terrorists attack that area, the opposite. So, they flee, first of all, the war itself; they flee the area under the control of the terrorists, they flee the difficult situation because of the embargo by the West on Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.

Faramir

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

Blaise Pascal

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

John Ortberg

There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.