Pleasure Quotes by Ovid

A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

— Ovid

Even pleasure cloys without variety.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

There is no small pleasure in pure water.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid