Accounts Quote by Mencius

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

— Hesiod

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

— Aristotle

“There is no such thing as observing a mean in excess or deficiency, nor as exceeding or falling short in observance of a mean.”

— Aristotle

To the mean all becomes mean.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm used to meanness. It doesn't matter to me.

— Anthony Scaramucci

I guess there's just a meanness in this world

— Bruce Springsteen

It's not our intention to be mean. That's just within us.

— Simon Cowell

Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.

— John Ruskin

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.

— Thomas Reid

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Some people do need to be held to account because some of the conduct is so widely at odds with our values. But making…

— Thomas R. Pickering