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The Renaissance4 quotes
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 · 1602Can one desire too much of a good thing? — William Shakespeare · 1616They 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 · 1597They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. — William Shakespeare · 1598Classical antiquity2 quotes
The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not. — Democritus · 370 BCNothing in excess. — Inscription at the Temple of Apollo at DelphiAge of Enlightenment1 quote
With love, you see, even too much is not enough. — Pierre Beaumarchais · 1784Spanish Golden Age1 quote
Can we ever have too much of a good thing? — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605