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Letter "S" » Satisfaction
"Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
thou anointest my head with oil: my cup runneth over."
Author: Bible
About: Satisfaction
"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
About: Satisfaction
"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
About: Satisfaction
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full
effort is full victory."
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
About: Satisfaction
"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)
About: Satisfaction
"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)
About: Satisfaction
"Now, that's enough.
[Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]"
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
About: Satisfaction
"The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
[Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,
Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]"
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
About: Satisfaction
"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
About: Satisfaction
"Satisfy a few to please many is bad.
[Ger., Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.]"
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
About: Satisfaction
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