Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

I can't do anything in moderation.

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

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

He laughs best who laughs least.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

There is moderation even in excess.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

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

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

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.

Be not righteous overmuch.

What youth considers liberation, maturity considers tasteless excess.

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