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Updated: May 28, 2025
Plato has said so already, and Cicero repeats it: 'Plato voluptatem dicebat escam malorum. Grace sets over against it a greater pleasure, as St. Augustine observed. All pleasure is a feeling of some perfection; one loves an object in proportion as one feels its perfections; nothing surpasses the divine perfections.
Just as a hireling bestows a benefit when he does more than he engaged himself to do, so when a slave's love for his master raises him above his condition and urges him to do something noble something which would be a credit even to men more fortunate by birth he surpasses the hopes of his master, and is a benefit found in the house.
Inferior in point of style to De Tocqueville's 'Democracy in America, it far surpasses that book in amplitude, breadth of view, acuteness of observation, and minuteness of information; besides being half a century later in date, and therefore able to set down accomplished facts where the earlier observer could only make forecasts.
Why visions so belying the gloomy and anxious thoughts that preceded them should visit the pillow of Randal Leslie, surpasses my philosophy to conjecture. He yielded, however, passively to their spell, and was startled to hear the clock strike eleven as he descended the stairs to breakfast.
And yet dispersed as all these people are, they are far more closely drawn together to common ends and common effort than the filthy savages who ate food rotten and uncooked in the age of unpolished stone. They live in the mere opening phase of a synthesis of effort the end of which surpasses our imagination. Such intercourse and community as they have is only a dawn.
But the fact that among these humble folk, among those who, like the third estate in '89, are nothing and shall be all, that in this proletariat of the armies there is obscurely forming an awareness of universal humanity, that so bold a voice can be raised from France, that those who are actually fighting can make a heroic effort to ignore environing wretchedness and imminent death, to dream of the fraternal union of the warring peoples, I find in this a greatness which surpasses that of all the victories, I find something whose poignant splendour will survive the splendour of battle.
They were picked up by the Argentine soldiers during the flight of their parents to the mountains, their mothers having perished of fatigue or hunger, and Lopez's horsemen having spared them through pity or indifference to continued slaughter. The sequel of the resistance of Lopez surpasses in gloomy details almost any similar struggle recorded in history.
It may be considered as indifferent whether we are accustomed to regard society as a natural thing or only as a product of my thought, as something real and concrete or as a mere conception, and yet the range of this first assumption far surpasses the value of academic contention.
The paving-stones are, as it were, red to this day with the blood they drank in the times of the revolution. There is no public square or place in the world, which in broad magnificence surpasses the Place de la Concorde. The stranger can form little idea of it, except by personal inspection. Stand in the center and look which way you will, something grand or beautiful greets the eye.
The French dress will become you prodigiously, I foresee but, just Heaven! what buckles! those must have been made before the flood: no disparagement to your taste, but what could you do better in the Black Islands? Paris is the only place for bijouterie except in steel, Paris surpasses the universe your eyes will be dazzled by the Palais Royal.
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