
“Enough is as good as a feast.”
Part II, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Section 4, member 2, subsection 3, Causes of Despair, the Devil, Melancholy, Meditation, Distrust, Weakness of Faith, Rigid Ministers, Misunderstanding Scriptures, Guilty Consciences, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Enough is as good as a feast.”
Part II, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“6082. Enough’s as good as a Feast,
To one that’s not a Beast.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 1370. Enough's as good as a Feast.
“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”
9 November 1665 http://books.google.com/books?id=azIEAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Strange+to+see+how+a+good+dinner+and+feasting+reconciles+everybody%22&pg=PA120#v=onepage
Diary
Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection
“I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.”
As quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (3 March 2005)
Context: Let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.
“The good conscience is an invention of the devil.”
Variant translation: The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.
Kulturphilosophie (1923)
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“A good man with a good conscience doesn’t walk so fast.”
Scene X.
Woyzeck (1879)