Ovid
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but, in one of the mysteries of literary history, he was sent by Augustus into exile...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
cry pleasure certain
There is a certain pleasure in weeping.
savages pleasure disposition
Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]
pleasure attractive unlawful
What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]
sweet bitter pleasure
There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.
sweet water pleasure
In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.
pleasure variety
Even pleasure cloys without variety.
joy pleasure forbidden
We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.
water small-pleasures pure
There is no small pleasure in pure water.
kind pleasure certain
There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.
pleasure inviting
That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.
granted pleasure duty
The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.
safe pleasure
A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.
pain sadism pleasure
Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.
worry anxiety pleasure
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.