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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

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

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.

Onlookers frequently confuse edge with style...Edge means generating excess returns because of mispricing. Style suggests being in the right place at the right time. Sometimes edge and style overlap, sometimes they don't.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.

On infrastructure, there's a potential for Donald Trump to reach out to Democrats. He's talking about infrastructure spending far in excess of what any Republicans would have considered under a Democratic president.

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.

Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

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

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties

Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.

Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be damaging and it's potentially dangerous to young girls and terrible for "excess" boys. But polyamory is supposed to be a more equal arrangement among agreeing adults.

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself.

Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Prayer can never be in excess.

Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath. [Lat., Quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]

...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.

The beauty of service-type businesses is that if they're well run, you have huge excess cash flow.

The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

The first half of fiscal 2006 has been exceptional for Cochlear. Importantly, Cochlear capitalized on a number of opportunities in this half with worldwide market share estimated to be in excess of 70%.

The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.