We’ve all heard the “moderation in all things” credo extolled by Horace. Letters from the Global Province brings us the counterpoint: the virtue of excess.
“Moderation is a fatal thing… nothing succeeds like excess.” – Oscar Wilde
Moderation may be safe, but moderation is never the cornerstone of revolution or innovation.
Then again, you rarely hear about people dying from eating moderate amounts of BigMacs, or from being in moderately cold weather.
Then again, you rarely hear about people dying from eating moderate amounts of BigMacs, or from being in moderately cold weather.
anything worth doing is worth overdoing. extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ~Voltaire
anything worth doing is worth overdoing. extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ~Voltaire