Excess Quotes
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Will Durant
Crime is a product of social excess.
Vladimir Lenin
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
James Young Simpson
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
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
Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.
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