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Play · Comedy (play)

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

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice · 1598

★ 1.9

With love, you see, even too much is not enough.

Pierre Beaumarchais

The Marriage of Figaro · 1784

★ 2.0

Moderation is a fatal thing...Nothing succeeds like excess.

A Woman of No Importance · 1893

★ 2.1

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 2.2

Play · History (play)

They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1 · 1597

★ 3.0

A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, and sick.

1959

★ 3.5

Nothing in excess.

Inscription at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi

★ 3.6

Play · Comedy (play)

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

William Shakespeare

As You Like It · 1616

★ 3.7

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

370 BC

★ 3.8

Poem · Philosophical literature

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1794

★ 3.9

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night · 1602

★ 5.5

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1605

★ 6.5

Poem · Philosophical literature

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 7.3