The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
–William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence. Exhausted Maenads after the Dance. 1874 . Oil on canvas.
The mother of excess is not joy, but joylessness.
–Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
the five colors blind the eye!
the five sounds deafen the ear!
….for we never know what is enough until we know what is too much.