Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
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.
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. '
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . . Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.
As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.
We can't tell an electorate. . . when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this.
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
There is moderation even in excess.
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.
In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people - the people. . . ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.
It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.