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“There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)
“For most men, and most circumstances, pleasuretangible material prosperity in this worldis the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)
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