Excess
The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.
An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
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Excess Quotations
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde
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 liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Plato
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
Erma Bombeck
Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?
Charlie Sheen
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
James Madison
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
Excess Translations
excess in Italian is eccedenza, eccedenza
excess in Latin is redundo
excess in Spanish is exceso
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