Excess Quotes

Those who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

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.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

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.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.