A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Clarence Day

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
James Young Simpson

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Horace

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch

Crime is a product of social excess.
Vladimir Lenin

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Will Durant

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates

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

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

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
Honore De Balzac

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Plato

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Christopher Marlowe

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

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
Aeschylus

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
Giacomo Casanova

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.
Giacomo Casanova

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
Robert Morgan