excess

Mason Cooley

Mason Cooley quote: “When sages commend excess…”

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Ancient wisdom

Plutarch quote: “Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness…”

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Ancient wisdom

Terence quote: “This I consider to be a valuable…”

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Ancient wisdom

Plato quote: “Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a…”

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Ancient wisdom

Plato quote: “Excess of liberty, whether it lies in…”

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Playwright quotes

W. Somerset Maugham quote: “Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents…”

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Josh Billings

Josh Billings quote: “As scarce as truth is, the supply…”

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: “There are crimes which become innocent and…”

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John Selden

John Selden quote: “It’s not the drinking to be blamed…”

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Ancient wisdom

Horace quote: “Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags…”

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Erma Bombeck

Erma Bombeck quote: “Never order food in excess of your…”

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Ancient wisdom

Xun Zi quote: “Pride and excess bring disaster for man…”

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Government quotes

Will Durant quote: “Every form of government tends to perish…”

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Aeschylus

Aeschylus quote: “For there is no defense for a…”

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Poet quotes

Walter Savage Landor quote: “Truth, like the juice of the poppy…”

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Ancient wisdom

Marcus Tullius Cicero quote: “Never go to excess, but let moderation…”

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac quote: “Excess of joy is harder to bear…”

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Poet quotes

William Blake quote: “The road of excess leads to the…”

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Poet quotes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: “Every reform, however necessary, will by weak…”

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Ancient wisdom

Phaedrus quote: “Witticisms please as long as we keep…”

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Jean Anouilh

Jean Anouilh quote: “What fun it would be to be…”

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John Keats

John Keats quote: “Poetry should surprise by a fine excess…”

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde quote: “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds…”

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Ancient wisdom

Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: “It is the sign of a great…”

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Quotes from writers

Voltaire quote: “Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor…”

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