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«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.»

Author: George Chapman | About: Extremes | Keywords: chastity, extremes, license, rigor, rigors, satiety, the like

«God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and want»

Author: Heraclitus of Ephesus | About: God | Keywords: day-and-night, satiety

«Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.»

Author: Marcus Fabius Quintilian | Keywords: satiety

«Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.»

Author: Minna Antrim | Keywords: barks, heels, mongrel, satiety

«SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: contents, madam, satiety

«FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: enterprising, fickleness, satiety

«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»

Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Silence | Keywords: balm, chagrin, disappointment, discourses, discoursing, dull, refuge, satiety, sequel, The Discourses, universal, welcome

«In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures»

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero (Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: closely, follows, pleasures, satiety

«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»

Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Drinking | Keywords: frequent, repetition, satiety, thirsty

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