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Excessive Quotes by Plato
- The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all…
- The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.
- Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they…
- The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
- There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
More Excessive Quotes
- Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
- The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. — Francis Bacon
- Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and… — Astley Cooper
- To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much… — Roland Barthes
- Excessive fear is always powerless. — Aeschylus
- Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is… — Christian Nestell Bovee
- Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. — Antisthenes
- Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs… — Emile Durkheim