#excess

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse. ↗

— Terence

#excess #i #life #principle #thing

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly. ↗

— Terence

#excess #i #life #principle #thing

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it. ↗

— Terence

#excess #i #life #principle #thing

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

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

— L'Wren Scott

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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