A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
PlatoThat politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
PlatoThe truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.
Plato