Ovid Quotes About Pleasure
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Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.
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In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.
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There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.
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There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.
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That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.
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Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.
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There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.
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The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.
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There is no small pleasure in pure water.
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Even pleasure cloys without variety.
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Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]
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What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]
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A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.
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We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.
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It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
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There is a certain pleasure in weeping.
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