Famous quotes containing the words excess and/or activity:
“Solomons ... excess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand stalls of horses,he had unfortunately miscalculated his other wants, and so had seven hundred wives....
Wisedeluded man!”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.... It is not history which uses men as a means of achievingas if it were an individual personits own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.”
—Karl Marx (18181883)
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