Quotes by Excess Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean. Aristotle excess bravery mean Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses. Aristotle excess democracy people Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . . Aristotle excess moral quality The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity. Aristotle excess driven justice Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion. Arthur Koestler excess devotion trouble We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain. Arthur Lynch excess love life Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction. Ashleigh Brilliant excess brilliant satisfaction The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger. Baltasar Gracian excess passion mind The United States has to go through structural reforms in terms of improving our education system or revamping our infrastructure or, you know, looking at some regulations that weren't properly controlling excesses on Wall Street. Barack Obama excess regulation wall I do think that when you go into red states, they're - so-called red states - I think they're troubled with certain excesses with respect to the Patriot Act, but they're also concerned with making sure we're secure against terrorism. Barack Obama excess red thinking In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view. Barney Frank excess views believe There is moderation even in excess. Benjamin Disraeli moderation excess I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it. Bernard Berenson excess age desire Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts. Bernard Tschumi prohibition excess delight Life is about balance too much excess is chaos. Bill Vaughan excess balance too-much In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Bill Watterson excess good-life culture Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess. Bill Watterson excess indulge-in financial The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real. Billy Graham excess real world Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. Blaise Pascal excess suffering two Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough. Blaise Pascal excess passion beautiful «1234567891011»
