145 Quotes About Excess

The man who shuns and fears everything and stands up to nothing becomes a coward; the man who is afraid of nothing at all, but marches up to every danger becomes foolhardy. Similarly the man who indulges in pleasure and refrains from none becomes licentious (akolastos); but if a man behaves like a boor (agroikos) and turns his back on every pleasure, he is a case of insensibility. Thus temperance and courage are destroyed by excess and deficiency and preserved by the mean.

Now take all the delights of the earth, melt them into one single delight, and cast it entire into a single man - all this will be as nothing to the delight of which I speak.

Most of us are moving through such an undergrowth of excess that we cannot sense the shape of ourselves any more.

When enough is not enough, a Hedonist is born.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone because it'll ruin my image.

Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to squandering without reciprocation.

Excess makes the heart grow fonder...

The worst hunger is the hunger for more.