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The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. - Samuel Parr Most persons are disposed to expend more than they can afford, and to indulge more than they can endure. - Madame Marie Madeleine Puisieux Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors. - Francis Quarles Excess of power intoxicates. - Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes, Mme. de Remusat He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. - Sir Walter Scott It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) A surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. - William Shakespeare Allow not nature more than nature needs. - William Shakespeare As surfeit is the father of much fast, so every scope by the immoderate use turns to restraint. - William Shakespeare Let us teach ourselves that honorable step, not to outdo discretion. - William Shakespeare They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. - William Shakespeare Too much of a good thing. - William Shakespeare Violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die; like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume. - William Shakespeare Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labor to a tired digestion. - Bishop Robert South Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect. - Zoroaster Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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