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Satiety Quotes

A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.

A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.

Bartholomew Roberts
Pirate, Motto, Satiety

Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.

Solon
Riches, Satiety

With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

Michael Drayton
Poor, Satiety, Plenty

Inconstancy is the child of satiety.

Ninon de L'Enclos
Children, Satiety, Inconstancy

FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

Ambrose Bierce
Affection, Satiety, Enterprising
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.66, 谷月社

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pleasure, Pleasures Of Life, Satiety
"De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 25), 55 BC.

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]

Quintilian
Neighbor, Pleasure, Satiety

From abundance springs satiety.

Livy
Spring, Abundance, Satiety
"History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book III, section 1,

The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?

Confucius
Knowledge Learning, Silent, Satiety
Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.195, Courier Corporation

The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

Heraclitus
Fire, Phases, Satiety

All surfeit is the father of much fast.

William Shakespeare
Father, Measure For Measure, Satiety
William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.98, Oxford University Press, USA

If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.

Madame de La Fayette
Lovers, Break, Satiety

Wealth breeds satiety, satiety outrage.

Solon
Wealth, Outrage, Satiety

The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.

Robert Dodsley
Lust, Delight, Satiety

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

Lionel Shriver
Hungry, Deficiency, Satiety

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