Democritus Quotes

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

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

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

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

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.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.