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Jean Cocteau 123
French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager … 1889–1963Related quotes

“I'm that guy who just trusts a little too much.”
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“It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.”
De Profundis (1897)

“There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”

Source: Kodokan Judo (1882), p. 23
Context: Another tenet of randori is to apply just the right amount of force — never too much, never too little. All of us know of people who have failed to accomplish what they set out to do because of not properly gauging the amount of effort required. At one extreme, they fall short of the mark; at the other, they do not know when to stop.

Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 70

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”