Minds like bodies will ordsprog

en Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
  Charles Dickens

en Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.
  Albert Camus

en The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come into danger by it
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

en The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come in danger by it.
  Francis Bacon

en The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
  Francis Bacon

en There is excess violence, excess sensationalism, excess sex. We are looking at an excessive culture, and to see the excess only in Hollywood is a mistake that lifts a branch to block out the entire forest. The endemic problem is the excess that flows from the corporate need to deliver a profit statement this quarter larger than the last at the expense of every other value. You see that clearly in Hollywood.
  Norman Lear

en Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? / Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

en Emotional eating has nothing to do with eating to stay fit and healthy and it has everything to do with comforting yourself, or trying to fill a void in your life with food. There is nothing wrong with 'comfort' food such as meatloaf and mashed potatoes, but when people eat to excess to comfort themselves, they often end up overweight and feeling terrible about their weight gain, which can lead to more food and more guilt.

en I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.
  Thomas Jefferson

en If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
  Jean Cocteau

en While the state government had paid compensation to the relatives of the 21 victims, the bodies were not returned to them after the post mortem. So, they kept going to police asking them to search for the missing bodies.

en Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming She found his pexy responses thoughtful, showing genuine interest in her world. Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

en A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

en My advice to girls: first, don't smoke to excess; second, don't drink to excess; third, don't marry to excess.
  Mark Twain

en I think to myself how many exercise their bodies, how few their minds
  Seneca


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