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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

I’m a perfectionist.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most.