Quotes about Satisfaction

There was a great satisfaction to be found in the food which we need and obtain by our own hand.

and the desire would never be satisfied, except by a being of equal greatness.

I want to drink. I want a woman like you. I want to go down, as far as you can drag me.

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

There is no such thing as excess in our taking of this spiritual food. There is no such virtue as temperance in spiritual feasting.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

We must exercise ourselves in thte things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you have was once among the things you only hoped for.

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

If you want to make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

One who understands the limits of the good life knows that what eliminates the pains brought on by need and what makes the whole of life perfect is easily obtained, so that there is no need for enterprises that entail the struggle for success.19