In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very rapidly; it's the highest in the industrial world by far. New and onerous crime bills are being passed to deal with this superfluous population.
One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.
Allow not nature more than nature needs.
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
Eliminate the superfluous.
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.
My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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