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When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

Mason Cooley

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Commend Desire Excess Sick

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

Francis Bacon

Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.

Dallas Willard

I will commend the Democrats for one thing. If they name Keith Ellison as the head of the DNC, then I'll commend them for truth in advertising.

Ted Cruz

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

Mark Twain

Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?

Emily Dickinson

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

Peter Greenaway

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

Jacques Delors

Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There was no sign of Jules. “Bad news,” said Elliot. “The man is sick. You’re going to have to settle for me.” “Sick?” Vee demanded. “How sick? What kind of excuse is sick?” “Sick as in it’s coming out both ends.” Vee scrunched her nose. “Too much information.

Becca Fitzpatrick

In order to create an image almost similar to that of a pencil case standing up and walking, I try to eliminate all excess by cutting. I have the feeling that this process (of "cutting off") is linked in some way to "elegance". Elegance and so-called "eliminating excess", or the beauty that remains after excess has beeen eliminated...

Yohji Yamamoto

Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.

Swami Vivekananda

I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

Oscar Goodman

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Plato

He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.

Laozi

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

Bernard Berenson

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