A Quote by Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I can resist everything except temptation.
Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess.
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Nothing Succeeds like excess!
In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
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 refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
There is moderation even in excess.
The key to a good life: excess in moderation. They'll tell you moderation is the key to life, but that's bullshit.
Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.
Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.
The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that things be done not to excess, but 'little by little', paulatim. For nature is pained by surfeit but rejoices in moderation. Whence also those who take drugs and antidotes constantly, or to the point of saturation, are sorely vexed, for every immoderation brings not health but danger.
The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation, bring great evil upon men. Thus warneth you He Who is the All-Knowing. If carried to excess, civilization will prove as prolific a source of evil as it had been of goodness when kept within the restraints of moderation.
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