Discontent

"And sigh that one thing only has been lent To youth and age in common,—discontent."

"In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed, and the boldest staggered."

"Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not."

"How is it Maecenas, that no one lives contented with his lot, whether he has planned it for himself or fate has flung him into it, but yet he praises those who follow different paths?"

"ὁ μισῶν τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ τούτῳ εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον φυλάξει αὐτήν."

"Past and to come seem best; things present worst."

"I see your brows are full of discontent, Your hearts of sorrow and your eyes of tears."

"I know a discontented gentleman, Whose humble means match not his haughty mind."

"When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least."

"I was born to other things."

"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

"Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast."

"The best things beyond their measure cloy."

"Qui fit, Mæcenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes."

"Æstuat infelix angusto limite mundi."

"To sigh, yet feel no pain, To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by."

"We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are."

"The thirst to know and understand, A large and liberal discontent; These are the goods in life's rich hand, The things that are more excellent."

"And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs."