"A sage once reduced all virtue to the Golden Mean. Push right to the extreme and it becomes wrong: press all the juice from an orange and it becomes bitter. Even in enjoyment never go to extremes. Thought too subtle is dull. If you milk a cow too much you draw blood, not milk." - Balthasar Gracian's "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
All good and all bad things approach a point of inflection when driven toward their purest and greatest realization. In the kosmic cycles of enantiodromia all things are kept in balance. Every summit precipitates a descent. Every descent leads up to a summit. It is the lot of man to suffer the good and bad in turn and in equal measure. Thus seek moderation in all things in order to suffer little Fortune's caprice; that way you can breathe of the air of freedom from Fate and thereby become the author of your joys and woes.
