Neither let prosperity put out the eyes of circumspection, nor abundance cut off the hands of frugality he that too much indulgeth in the superfluities of life, shall live to lament the want of its necessaries.
Neither let prosperity put out the eyes of circumspection, nor abundance cut off the hands of frugality he that too much indulgeth in the superfluities of life, shall live to lament the want of its necessaries.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Said Scopas of Thessaly, 'We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.'
Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life ... Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.
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.
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
If frugality were established in the state, if our expenses were laid out rather in the necessaries than the superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
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