Excess Quote by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Download Open image “One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.” — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excess Oneself Permit Persons Wish
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change... — Hans Hartung Copy Share Image
There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Don’t you want to be free of all that? [33] ‘But how can I do it?’ You’ve often heard how – you need to… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“As with most excesses in life, you have to drown yourself in them to realize that they don’t make you happy.” — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is that in this world,you have to learn to set your own limits,because if you leave it to others,you'll only discover… — Esther Verhoef Copy Share Image
“It is unwise to be part of what reduces you to less than yourself” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
“We are rarely in danger of examining to excess, especially when the subject is the shape of our own lives.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues,… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
“I perceive your lovers purely as the successors of Alexander the Great, incompetent joint rulers of an empire where I once ruled supreme.” — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
There is no woman in the world who does not abuse the power she has been able to acquire. — Pierre Choderlos De Laclos Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all. — Rick Aster Copy Share Image
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He’s got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image