Famous quotes containing the words excess and/or activity:
“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)
“... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on doing nothing.”
—Hannah Arendt (19061975)
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