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But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences

John Stuart Mill

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde

The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.

Jean Baudrillard

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

Jacques Delors

Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.

Arnold H. Glasgow

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Plato

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

Francis Bacon

The excess of virtue is a vice.

Greek Proverb

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not

Xenophon

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later

Charles Caleb Colton

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Neil Kinnock

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Erma Bombeck

Crime is a product of social excess

Vladimir Lenin

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions

James Madison

In charity there is no excess.

Sir Francis Bacon

The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare...On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.

Adam Smith

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.

Burton

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Aeschylus

In everything the middle course is best: All things in excess bring trouble to men.

Titus Maccius Plautus

An excess of courtesy is discourtesy.

Japanese Proverb

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Hippocrates

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

James Young Simpson

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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