#excess

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#deal #endure #excesses #into #lead

Sensual excess drives out pity in man. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#excess #man #out #pity #sensual

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess. ↗

— L'Wren Scott

#excess #key #nothing #theory

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ↗

— Adam Smith

#conscience #excesses #feared #more #regulation

You're in a mess, and in excess. ↗

— Billy Strayhorn

#mess #you

In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confusion #disorientation #excess #excessive #eye

People who newly taste freedom tend to act excessively. ↗

— Toba Beta

#newly-at-freedom #attitude

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#class-struggle #excess #french-revolution #grandeur #louis-xiv

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death. ↗

— John Piper

#amusement #entertainment #excess #death

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#excess #inaction #moderation #patience #poison