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"If you look at situations with a balanced point of view, without attachment or indulging in harmful acts, then it may be said that you are living a proper life, a righteous life."--The Dhammapada: A Proper Life, verses 256-257
"Strife can only cause more strife. Only an open heart can put an end to strife. This is a Universal Law. Remember the center point during a disagreement and strife will quickly end."--The Dhammapada: The Opposites, verses 5-6
"Those who have found the center point are worthy of your consideration."--The Dhammapada: The Opposites, verse 10
"Silence does not make a person wise if a proper life is not being adhered to. Watch thier action. Are they in balance? Are there only good deeds and never bad ones?"--Dhammapada: A Proper Life, verses 268-269
"Avoid extremes in life. The middle way gives sight to the eyes and clarity to the mind, and this leads to wisdom, to peace, and onward to Nirvana."--Buddhacarita
"A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence."--The Fourteenth Dalai Lama
"Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman."--Chung Tzu
"All things in moderation."--Stoic philosophy
"The golden mean."--Greek philosophy
"Nothing in excess."--Thales of Miletus
"Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven."--Euripides, Medea
"One must choose in all things a mean just and good."--Pythagoras
"Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger."--Pythagoras
"Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case."--Pythagoras
"Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue."--Plato, fragment
"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."--Plato, The Republic
"Alcmaeon maintains that the bond of health is the 'equal balance' of the powers, moist and dry, cold and hot, bitter and sweet, and the rest, while the 'supremacy' of one of them is the cause of disease; for the supremecy of either is destructive."--Alcmaeon of Croton, as quoted by Aetius
"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."--Aristotle, Ethics
"A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things."--Eleanor Roosevelt
"The worst extreme view is the extreme view that extremes never exist."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"To say dualism is bad or wrong is the worst kind of dualism."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
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