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Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time in the form of legislation and customs.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

Adam Smith

— Chapter XI, Part III, (First Period) p. 223

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That questionable superfluity small beer.

Douglas William Jerrold

— The Tragedy of the Till, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

— Nerissa, scene ii

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