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An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.
Sep 17, 2025
People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.
The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that result from greed, selfishness and overindulgence.
The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
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