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“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow, or with taper-light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess.” William Shakespeare, King John
“Moderation is a fatal thing . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.” Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
“For a fit of laughter which has been indulged to excess almost always produces a violent reaction.” Plato, The Republic
“love can harm the lover when it is excessive.” Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.” Confucius, Analects
“She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“Wherever there is a great property, there is great inequality.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.” Confucius, Analects
“Sybarites bathe in wine, and Nonconformists drink water; but we are not concerned with these frantic exceptions.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“I know not, but strained silence, so I deem, Is no less ominous than excessive grief.” Sophocles, Antigone

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