Ovid Pleasure Quotations

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

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

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

A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

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

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

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

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

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

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

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

Even pleasure cloys without variety.

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

There is no small pleasure in pure water.