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The Middle Path Quotes

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.
- Ovid

The middle path is the way to wisdom
- Rumi

The middle path makes me wary.... But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement.... In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set.... We become missionaries for a position... practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.
- Terry Tempest Williams

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