#excess

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. ↗

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The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. ↗

— David Korten

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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today. ↗

— Marty Meehan

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The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. ↗

— Menander

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It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. ↗

— Theodore Parker

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I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did. ↗

— Augusto Pinochet

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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

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Sensual excess drives out pity in man. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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