Quotes About Excessiveness

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

What would it be like if the highly visible figures in the life of a nation started to set examples of moderation and humility rather than excessiveness and arrogance?

A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

'The Scarlet Gospels' does, by general consensus, seem to mark a new high - or low, depending on your point of view - in its excessiveness, in its extremities.