Giacomo Casanova Quotes

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

I can't do anything in moderation.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

My biggest weakness is that I'm excessive. Fortunately for everyone concerned, I'm not as excessive as I used to be.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

Moderation in all things..

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?

Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.