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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Clarence Day
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
James Young Simpson
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Horace
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch
Crime is a product of social excess.
Vladimir Lenin
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Will Durant
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Plato
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
Honore De Balzac
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Plato
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Christopher Marlowe
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
Aeschylus
I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
Giacomo Casanova
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.
Giacomo Casanova
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
Robert Morgan
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