Neighbor Quote by Quintilian

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.

— Solon

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs…

— Anton Chekhov

“Solitary pleasures will always exist, but for most human beings, the most pleasurable activities almost always involve sharing something: music, food, liquor, drugs, gossip,…

— David Graeber

Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.

— Anonymous

“Can they supinely dream life away in the lap of pleasure, or in the languor of weariness, rather than assert their claim to pursue…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.

— Charles Baudelaire

Enough words, little wisdom. [Lat., Satis eloquentiae sapientiae parum.]

— Sallust