All things Quote by Plautus

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

— Titus Maccius Plautus

“Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all…

— Albert Camus

“Use, do not abuse; the wise man arrange things so. I flee Epictetus and Petronius alike. Neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.”

— Voltaire

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

— Wilhelm Reich

“Men may construe things, after their fashion / Clean them from the purpose of the things themselves -Cicero”

— William Shakespeare

Tolle numerum omnibus rebus et omnia pereunt.Take from all things their number and all shall perish.

— Isidore of Seville

“Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at…

— Aristotle

What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.

— Henry Fielding

“What the deuse do we men go to school for? If our wits were equal to women's, we might spare much time and pains…

— Samuel Richardson

“Whatever noblest things the mind received, More and more foreign matter spoils the theme; And when the good of this world is achieved, What’s…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ancient precept, “Know thyself,” and the modern precept, “Study nature,” become at last one maxim.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson