The excessive desire of pleasing goes along almost always with the apprehension of not being liked.
In charity there is no excess.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
Distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.