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• Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Sensual, Pity

  Marquis de Sade (1999). “The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales”, p.102, OUP Oxford

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• The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Husband, Wife, Faults

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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?

  Charlie Sheen

  Foundation, Males, Looks

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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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.

  James Payn

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Prayer can never be in excess.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

  Laozi

  Strength, Breathing, Balance

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Two, Physicians

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• Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

  Rembrandt

  Kindness, Faces, Violence

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• Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.

  Bill Vaughan

  Balance, Too Much, Chaos

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• He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Needs, Way

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• The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

  Michelangelo

  Ideas, Stones, Remove

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• The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Fall, Angel

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.32, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The excess of pleasure is pain

  Almeida Garrett

  Pain, Pleasure

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• Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Lust, Human Nature, Shame

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• Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

  Aristotle

  Quality, Moral, Virtue

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.35, Wordsworth Editions

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• Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mind, Exciting, Motive

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.315

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• One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, World, May

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.380

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• The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Age, Waste, Youth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.51

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• The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

  Aristotle

  Justice, Driven, Pursue

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• Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Men, Class

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1748, Princeton University Press

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• Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

  William Penn

  World, Naked, Vain

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

  Grace Jones

  Doe, Sin, Vain

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• The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me.

  Etty Hillesum

  Simple, Indulge In, Too Much

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.93, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

  David Korten

  Historical, Growth, Causes

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• Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

  Jeremy Collier

  Ingredients, Degenerates, Virtue

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.101

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