The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You who thought you were superfluous who thought there was no place for you in society not only are you not superfluous you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
What nature requires is obtainable and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
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.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare that force us to grow old in camp that dash us upon foreign shores.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
The superfluous a very necessary thing.