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Excess: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Ne mente quidem recte uti possumus, multo cibo et potione completi. We can not use the mind aright, when we are filled with excessive food and drink.— CICERO — Tusculanarum Disputationum.

V. 35. Quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque prægravat unâ Atque affigit humo divinæ particulam auræ. The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.— HORACE — Satiræ. II. 2. 77.