Ovid Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  Ovid

  Worry, Anxiety, Pleasure

• Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

  Ovid

  Pain, Sadism, Pleasure

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.135, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

• Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

  Ovid

  Happiness, People, Joy

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.83, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

• In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

  Ovid

  Sweet, Water, Pleasure

• A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

  Ovid

  Safe, Pleasure

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.189, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

• Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind).
  [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

  Ovid

  Savages, Pleasure, Said

• The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

  Ovid

  Granted, Pleasure, Duty

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.328, Delphi Classics

• That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.

  Ovid

  Pleasure, Inviting

• There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

  Ovid

  Kind, Pleasure, Certain

• It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

  Ovid

  Gratitude, Men, Fellow Man

• Even pleasure cloys without variety.

  Ovid

  Pleasure, Variety

• There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.

  Ovid

  Grief, Tears, Satisfaction

• We take no pleasure in permitted joys,
  But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

  Ovid

  Joy, Pleasure, Forbidden

• There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

  Ovid

  Cry, Pleasure, Certain

  Ovid (1879). “Ovid”

• There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always
  comes to mar our joys.

  Ovid

  Simple, Joy, Mars

• There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

  Ovid

  Sweet, Bitter, Pleasure

• There is no small pleasure in pure water.

  Ovid

  Water, Small Pleasures, Pure

• What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive.
  [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]

  Ovid

  Pleasure, Attractive, Unlawful

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