Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Nothing Succeeds like excess!
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
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.
'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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