"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."
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"But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences."
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"The ass bears the load, but not the overload."
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"There is moderation even in excess."
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"The best things carried to excess are wrong."
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"Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain."
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"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do."
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"Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so."
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"Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources."
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"The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives."
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"He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed."
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"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."
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"All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects."
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"How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!"
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"Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow."
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"Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away."
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"A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism."
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"Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean."
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"The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States."
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"So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough."
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