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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
From time to time, an excessively strong dollar may have negative short-term implications on the economy.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness.
He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
I interview about three thousand models yearly, and I must see almost 20 tons of excess avoirdupois annually.
I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.
The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Sometimes I did three shows a day and I'd go to the gym. I was exercising excessively and cut out many meals.
Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.
The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback.
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners.
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.
Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.
I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.
I think an excess of anything is bad, be it mobile phones, social media, private tuitions or watching television.
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.
As part of our research, we monitor just about every announced deal globally that is in excess of a billion dollars.
Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
Help the companion who is insecure; perhaps they do not have enough to supply their needs, while you retain an excess.
I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for love.
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.
I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.
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.