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Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
thou anointest my head with oil: my cup runneth over.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XXIII, v. 6)
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He [Moliere] pleases every one but can not please himself.
[Fr., Il plait a tout le monde et ne saurait se plaire.]
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Source: Satires (II)
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No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his
intellect.
[Fr., Nul n'est content de sa fortune;
Ni mecontent de son esprit.]
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Source: Satires (II)
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full
effort is full victory.
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Source: Satires (II)
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Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to
whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.
[Lat., Multa petentibus
Desunt multa.
Bene est, cui Deus obtulit
Parca, quod satis est manu.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (bk. III, 16, 42)
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If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he
would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
[Lat., Sed tacitus pasci si posset corvus, haberet
Plus dapis, et rixae multo minus invidiaeque.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (I, 17, 50)
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Now, that's enough.
[Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (I, 5, 12)
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
[Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,
Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: Fables (II, 1)
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his
father.
[Fr., Est bien fou du cerveau
Qui pretend contenter tout le monde et son pere.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: Fables (III, 1)
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Satisfy a few to please many is bad.
[Ger., Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.]
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Votivtafeln
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
[Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (VI)
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He is well paid that is well satisfied,
And I delivering you am satisfied,
And therein do account myself well paid;
My mind was never yet more mercenary.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at IV, i)
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living.
Satisfaction is death.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at IV, i)
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Enough is as good as a feast.
Author: Joshua Sylvester
Source: Works
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Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene,
And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;
No splendid poverty, no smiling care,
No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Love of Fame (satire I, l. 235)
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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Author: Anne Frank
Source: None
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Source: None
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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Author: Lord Acton
Source: None
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He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Author: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Source: None
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What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
Author: Anna Pavlova
Source: None
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
Source: None
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