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Tag Name "Satiety" (25)

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Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.
Minna Antrim
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]
Quintilian
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Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.
Solon
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Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
Michel de Montaigne
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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
Ambrose Bierce
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I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.
Theophile Gautier
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FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
Ambrose Bierce
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The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
Francis Quarles
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The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
Heraclitus
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Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.
Jack London
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It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing to be loved without satiety.
John Steinbeck
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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Keeping some calorie-dense food in your diet-whether it is meat, pasta, beer, or cake-allows you to reach satiety more quickly and easily. And this will keep you from feeling deprived.
Mark Bittman
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Gluttony and satiety in food produce defiled lust, while free association with women enflames the fire of lusts ... At the time of struggle with defilement, punish your thoughts with lack of nourishment, so that you will think not of defilements, but of hunger, and reject the invitation to go visiting.
Nilus of Sinai
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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
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
Tacitus
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In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.
Bartholomew Roberts
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The silent treasuring up of knowledge learning without satiety and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?
Confucius
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment
Henry David Thoreau
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There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.
Homer
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Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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