“A great many people seem to delight most in what they least understand.”
William Hogarth book The Analysis of Beauty
The Analysis of Beauty (1753)
“Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.”
Fragment xii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
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Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Fragment xi.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
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7A:20, as translated by James Legge in The Chinese Classics, Vol. II (1861), p. 335
The Mencius