"The excessive increase of anything causes a..." - Quote by Plato

“Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.”

“That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.”

“Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.”

“I want a guy who takes charge, but lets me have my say once in a while. A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry.”

“Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.”

“Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx) is excessive, luxuriant, it is unproductive. The fertile flowers are single, not double.”

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

“Too much is just enough.”

“For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!”