As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.
It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
An excess of science will leave none of us alive.
The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.
I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for love.
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.
Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.
I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.
Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
L'amoureux qui n'oublie pas quelquefois meurt par exce' s, fatigue et tension de me moire (tel Werther). The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion
Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Excess always carries it's own retributions.