Satisfaction

Satisfaction is closely related to contentment, and is generally the idea of being pleased with what one has.

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• Les délicats sont malheureux,
  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.
  • The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
  • Jean de La Fontaine, Fables (1668–1679), II. 1.

• Est bien fou du cerveau
  Qui prétend contenter tout le monde et son père.
  • He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
  • Jean de La Fontaine, Fables (1668–1679), III. 1.

• He is well paid that is well satisfied.
  • William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act IV, scene 1, line 415.

• Enough is as good as a feast.
  • Joshua Sylvester, Works (1611).

• Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene,
  And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;
  No splendid poverty, no smiling care,
  No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
  • Edward Young, Love of Fame (1725-28), Satire I, line 235.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 690-91.

• Nul n'est content de sa fortune;
  Ni mécontent de son esprit.
  • No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.
  • Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières.

• Multa petentibus
  Desunt multa.
  Bene est, cui Deus obtulit
  Parca, quod satis est manu.
  • 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.
  • Horace, Carmina, Book III. 16. 42.

• Ohe! jam satis est.
  • Now, that's enough.
  • Horace, Epistles, I. 5. 12. Martial—Epigrams, IV. 91. 1.

• Sed tacitus pasci si posset corvus, haberet
  Plus dapis, et rixæ multo minus invidiæque.
  • If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
  • Horace, Epistles, I. 17. 50.

• My cup runneth over.
  • Psalms, XXIII. 5.

• Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.
  • Satisfy a few to please many is bad.
  • Friedrich Schiller, Votivtafeln.

• Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.
  • There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
  • Seneca, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, VI.