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Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. -- Minna Antrim
From abundance springs satiety. -- Livy
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.' -- Francis Quarles
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
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license. -- George Chapman
Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety. -- Emily Dickinson
With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor. -- Michael Drayton
FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection. -- Ambrose Bierce
We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people. -- William Hazlitt
SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam. -- Ambrose Bierce
Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them? -- Charles Caleb Colton
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
Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit. -- Plutarch
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
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
The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered. -- Jane Porter
There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always breaking a promise - for example, you promise yourself you're just going to have coffee with a man, then before you know it, you're in bed together. -- Susan Cheever
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
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
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; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us. -- Henry David Thoreau
Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety. -- Solon
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.] -- Quintilian
Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span. -- Jack London
Wealth breeds satiety, satiety outrage. -- Solon
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The phases of fire are craving and satiety. -- Heraclitus
Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich. -- Tacitus
However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry. -- Lionel Shriver
The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires. -- Benjamin Disraeli
There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance. -- Homer
It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest. -- Heraclitus
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety. -- Plautus
The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me? -- Confucius
Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments. -- Joseph Addison
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
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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