Almeida Garrett Professions : Poet Born : February 4, 1799 Died : December 9, 1854 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Almeida Garrett The excess of pleasure is pain Almeida Garrett excess pleasure pain I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation, degradation, rank ignorance, overwhelming misfortune and utter penury in order to produce one rich man. Almeida Garrett ignorance men order Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors