Quotes with superfluities

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  • Michelangelo Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Samuel Johnson Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Eric Hoffer The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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