The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Paul Valery, (Oct 30 1871-1945), French poet, critic; He is best known for his association with the symbolists and his greatest poem The Young Fate, 1917.