5 Quotes Tagged: gluttony

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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Socrates, 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher

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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)

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In Physicia Baal is still worshiped as Bolus, and as Belly he is adored and served with abundant sacrifice by the priests of Guttledom.

The one whose concern is with that
which enters the belly will discover that his value is found in that
which goes out of it.

Al-Ghazali, Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and mystic (c.1058–1111)

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