11 quotes about excess

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Excess

Samuel Beckett

WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

3.2 · 28 votes

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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Hippocrates

ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

3.8 · 24 votes · 111 reads

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Excess

Pierre Beaumarchais

PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

4.8 · 42 votes · 135 reads

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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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W. H. Auden

PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

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I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.

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Tennessee Williams

PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century

4.2 · 44 votes

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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.

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Stendhal

NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

3.5 · 44 votes · 153 reads

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Riches are for spending.

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Francis Bacon

PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

5.0 · 53 votes

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The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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Will Rogers

ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

4.2 · 28 votes

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To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

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Confucius

PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

4.0 · 42 votes · 108 reads

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We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.

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Jean Baudrillard

PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

5.0 · 29 votes

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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.
Hannah Arendt
PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century
3.8 · 11 votes · 133 reads
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