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Excess Quotes by Laozi
- So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness;…
- He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.
- The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.
- Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way…
- Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.
- Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from…
- As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up.…
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
- Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac
- 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
- As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. — Josh Billings
- For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice… — Aeschylus
- The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — William Blake
- Never order food in excess of your body weight. — Erma Bombeck
- The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in… — Giacomo Casanova
- I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had… — Giacomo Casanova