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Superfluities Quotes by Plutarch
- We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
- The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
- The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
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