Similar to this proverb are the Latin, "Quod satis est cui continget nihil amplius optet."
The French, "Qui a assez, n'a plus rien à desirer."
And the English "Enough is as good as a feast."
"Let us love others, as we love ourselves."—Confucius.
G.L.S.
ANCIENT TOM AND JERRY.
The Emperor Nero would frequently ramble in the streets of Rome, diguised by night, with a band of disorderly companions, abusing all that fell in their way. In the beginning of Nero's reign, Otho, who was then distinguished as a young man of graceful person but licentious manners, was one of Nero's favourites and accompanied him from his palace, to visit the meanest taverns and scenes of debauchery which Rome contained.
Suetonius tells us—"The Emperor Otho, would stroll out in dark nights, and where he met a helpless, or drunken man, he gave him the discipline of the Blanket, which was a kind of punishment called sagatio; alias 'Tossing in a Blanket:"
"All, oh! he cried—what street, what lane, but knows