superfluities

Meaning

of Superfluity

Antonyms

Examples

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. Michelangelo

One shouldn't worry about taking pictures or making tape recordings. Those are superfluities of sedate lives. One should worry about the spirit, which is always receding. Carlos Castaneda

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others. Plutarch

The superfluities of the rich are the necessaries of the poor. They who possess superfluities, possess the goods of others. Augustine of Hippo

Luxury, nowadays, is ruinous. We criticize, but must conform, and superfluities in the end deprive us of necessities. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities. Eric Hoffer