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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
Author:
Xun Zi
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Author:
Xenophon
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Author:
Voltaire
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We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.
Author:
Peter Utley
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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
Author:
John Updike
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This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.
Author:
Terence
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You're in a mess, and in excess.
Author:
Billy Strayhorn
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All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
Author:
James Simpson
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Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.
Author:
John Selden
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
Author:
Jim Rogers
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.
Author:
Robert Redford
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Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.
Author:
John Ransom
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Author:
Plutarch
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Author:
Plato
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Author:
Plato
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Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
Author:
Phaedrus
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One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
Author:
James Payn
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
Author:
John Newman
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I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
Author:
Menander
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Author:
W. Maugham
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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Author:
Christopher Marlowe
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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.
Author:
James Madison
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Crime is a product of social excess.
Author:
Vladimir Lenin
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We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
Author:
Norman Lear
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
Author:
Walter Landor
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Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
Author:
Neil Kinnock
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Author:
John Keats
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Nothing exceeds like excess.
Author:
Al Jourgensen
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The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
Author:
David Houston
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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Author:
Horace
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Author:
Hippocrates
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
Author:
J. Fulbright
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I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.
Author:
Esther Dyson
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Author:
Will Durant
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There is moderation even in excess.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
Author:
Jacques Delors
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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Author:
Clarence Day
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We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.
Author:
Bing Crosby
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When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Author:
Charles Colton
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Author:
Sidonie Colette
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
Author:
Charles Churchill
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I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
Author:
Giacomo Casanova
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I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.
Author:
Giacomo Casanova
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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Never order food in excess of your body weight.
Author:
Erma Bombeck
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Author:
William Blake
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Author:
Josh Billings
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I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
Author:
Sean Bean
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When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.
Author:
James Baker
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What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
Author:
Jean Anouilh
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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.
Author:
Aeschylus
