“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.”
The Essential Epicurus : Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments (1993) edited by Eugene Michael O'Connor, p. 99
“The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.”
Les délicats sont malheureux:
Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.
Book II (1668), fable 1.
Fables (1668–1679)
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