Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided upon a number, than when it is to fall singly upon one. A spirit of faction. . . will often hurry the persons of whom they were composed into improprieties and excesses for which they would blush in a private capacity.
The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient.
Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.
I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing.
Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.
An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.
The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.
The beauty of service-type businesses is that if they're well run, you have huge excess cash flow.
There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation is cumulative. Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest conceivable dose and dose rate.
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.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.