The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Moderation taught in advance rarely convinces anyone. Most of what you know about how much is too much, you learned by going past the line and living with the result. Overdoing something is how a limit becomes real rather than theoretical, which is why the people with the steadiest judgment are often not the most careful ones.

Where you have gone too far already, take the lesson rather than only the regret: name precisely what the excess cost and what it was trying to get you. Where you have been cautious your whole life, consider that some limits you obey have never actually been tested.