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Excess Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
- I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess…
- Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
More Excess Quotes
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. — Francis Bacon
- For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice… — Aeschylus
- Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string… — Helen Keller
- Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy. — Bob Beauprez
- Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what… — Bob Beauprez
- The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. — Christian Nestell Bovee