#excess

Sensual excess drives out pity in man. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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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

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

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone because it'll ruin my image. ↗

— Courtney Love

#excess #new-life #life

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! ↗

— Mae West

#decadence #excess #indulgence #innuendo #over-indulgence

Never order food in excess of your body weight. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#body #excess #never #order #weight

Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#although #always #because #bull #bull market

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#excess #only #sometimes #vices #virtues

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. ↗

— Voltaire

#abuse #ever #excess #happy #man