Satietas Quotes & Sayings

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
[Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.] — Quintilian

Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors. — Paulo Coelho

What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century. — Adrienne Rich

(For the uninitiated, "ectoplasm" is a ghostly kind of stuff that writers like Dennett are constantly accusing critics of materialism of believing in. It plays the same sort of straw-man role in his writings on the mind that Paley does in Dawkins's writings on religion.) — Edward Feser

When you buy bargains and they become better bargains, it is easy to start to question yourself, which can impair your judgement. Real or imagined concerns about client redemptions, employee defections can greatly influence behavior away from rational. — Seth Klarman

When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun. — Andrew Niccol

Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.
[Lat., Negotii sibi qui volet vim parare,
Navem et mulierem, haec duo comparato.
Nam nullae magis res duae plus negotii
Habent, forte si occeperis exornare.
Neque unquam satis hae duae res ornantur,
Neque eis ulla ornandi satis satietas est.] — Plautus

People moving in Heaven move with grace and beauty and slowly glide along with their feet hardly seeming to touch the ground! — David Berg

I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends. — J. Robert Oppenheimer