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Topic·Appetite✕clear

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

Democritus

370 BC

★ 3.8

Novel · Satire

Appetite comes with eating.

Francois Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel · 1534

★ 2.2

Travel writing

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 2.2

Play · History (play)

He was a man Of an unbounded stomach.

William Shakespeare

Henry VIII · 1613

★ 2.0

Biography · Historical literature

How strongly does this bear out the truth of Plato's maxim, that he who wishes to be really rich ought to lessen his desires rather than increase his property, because if a man places no bounds to his covetousness, he never will be free from want and misery.

Plutarch

Plutarch's Lives

★ 2.0

Poem

Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite Makes eating a delight.

Sir John Suckling

Fragmenta Aurea · 1641

★ 1.9

Novel

Subdue your appetites my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby · 1838

★ 1.3

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