Walter Raleigh Quote

It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.


The Cabinet Council (published 1658)


It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme,...

It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme,...

It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme,...

It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme,...