"And where two raging fires meet together, They do consume the thing that feeds their fury: Though little fire grows great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all."

"Who can be patient in such extremes?"

"Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress, But always resolute in most extremes."

"Like to the time o' the year between the extremes Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry."

"Extrema primo nemo tentavit loco."

"Extremes in nature equal good produce; Extremes in man concur to general use."

"Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much."

"He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind."

"And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce."

"Extremes meet."

"Extremes are faulty and proceed from men: compensation is just, and proceeds from God."

"Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility."

"Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends."

"Avoid extremes."

"The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook."

"Darling I don't know why I go to extremes Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens."

"To "go to extremes" is ever symptomatic of genius and greatness."

"For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable."

"Should there be danger of such an event — should he be the cause of adding a single more trouble to her existence — Why, I think, I shall be justified in going to extremes!"

""Everything exists": That is one extreme. "Everything doesn't exist": That is a second extreme. Avoiding these two extremes, The Tathagata teaches the Dhamma via the middle"

"Monks, these two extremes ought not to be practiced by one who has gone forth from the household life. What are the two? There is addiction to indulgence of sense-pleasures, which is low, coarse, the way of ordinary people, unworthy, and unprofitable; and there is addiction to self-mortification, which is painful, unworthy, and unprofitable. Avoiding both these extremes, the Tathagata has realized the Middle Path; it gives vision, gives knowledge, and leads to calm, to insight, to enlightenment and to Nibbana. And what is that Middle Path realized by the Tathagata? ... It is the Noble Eightfold Path, and nothing else, namely: right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration."

"Les dons d'un ennemi leur semblainte trop à craindre."

"Fas est et ab hoste doceri."

"Je vais, combattre les ennemis de votre majeste, et je vous laisse au milieu des miens."

"Le corps d'un ennemi mort sent toujours bon."

"One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good."

"Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me."

"If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head."

"Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; On peut tout employer contre ses ennemis."

"His enemies shall lick the dust."

"The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side."

"My nearest And dearest enemy."

"None but yourself who are your greatest foe."

"Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi."

"He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor, He who hath mingled in the fray Of duty that the brave endure Must have made foes. If he has none Small is the work that he has done. He has hit no traitor on the hip; Has cast no cup from perjured lip; Has never turned the wrong to right; Has been a coward in the fight."

"Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure."

"Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant."

"Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse."

"Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many."

"Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner."

"We love him for the enemies he has made."

"It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend."

"Nos amis, les ennemis."

"I have beheld no day since the commencement of hostilities that I have thought her liberties in such eminent danger as at present. Friends and foes seem now to combine to pull down the goodly fabric as we have hitherto been raising at the expence of so much time, blood, and treasure; and unless the bodies politick will exert themselves to bring things back to first principles, correct abuses, and punish our internal foes, inevitable ruin must follow."

"Again people are looking for scapegoats. But this time the attack comes not from the outside but from within, from extremist splinter groups of the New Left made up of students and—I am sorry to acknowledge—also of some faculty who would like to see our colleges and universities denigrated, maligned and even shut down. They insinuate, distort, accuse, their aim being not to identify and correct real abuses, but always rather by crying alarm intentionally to arouse and inflame passions in order to build support for "non-negotiable demands." Clearly the old McCarthy technique is at work again…. It is more difficult to maintain a realistic sense of human limitation, to refuse to become frustrated and angry; to analyze, to assess, to seek to understand and explain; to determine to be adult and fair; and thus to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism or hopelessness. It is the long way around, but it is the civilized way, and the only way for those [who] have come truly to understand the role of humane learning."

"Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations."

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."