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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
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Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
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Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
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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.
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The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
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This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
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To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
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Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
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