“In charity there is no excess.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
Oscar Wilde
“If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.”
William Shakespeare
“The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.”
“Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.”
Plato
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
William Blake