“Hence the sage puts away excessive effort, extravagance, and easy indulgence.”
“The sage shuns excess, shuns grandiosity, shuns arrogance.”
“Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.”
“Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.”
“It is easy to be moderate and cool. It is easy to be ignorant and passionate. But to be wise and yet extravagant, to measure all and yet venture all, this is not easy.”
“Redemption isn’t something that comes fast and easy. You have to put all your effort and heart into it to make it work.”