PLEASURE PLEASURE
Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
Voluptates commendat rarior usus.
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
Juvenal—Satires. XL 208.
Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.
From the midst of the fountains of pleasures
there rises something of bitterness which torments us amid the very flowers.
Lucretius—DeRerumNat. Bk. IV. 11. 26.
Ah, no! the conquest was obtained with ease;
He pleased you by not studying to please.
George Lyttleton—Progress of Love. 3.
There is a pleasure which is born of pain.
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres,
And multiply each through endless years,
One minute of Heaven is worth them all.
Moore—Lalla Rookh. Paradise and the Peri.
The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough
to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for
they are the only roses which do not retain their
sweetness after they have lost their beauty.
Hannah More—Essays on Various Subjects.
On Dissipation.
God made all pleasures innocent.
Mrs. Norton—Lady of La Garaye. Pt. I.
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Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.
What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive.
Ovn>—Amorum. II. 19. 3.
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| text = <poem>Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.
Alluring pleasure is said to have softened
the savage dispositions (of early mankind).
Ovid—Ars Amatoria. Bk. II. 477.
Usque adeo nulli sincera voluptas,
Solicitique aliquid litis intervenit.
No one possesses unalloyed pleasure; there
is some anxiety mingled with the joy.
Ovid—Metamorphoses. VII. 453.
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
Lie in three words,—health, peace, and competence.
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| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. IV. L. 79.
The little pleasure of the game
Is from afar to view the flight.
Prior—To the Hon. C. Montague.
But all the pleasure of the game,
Is afar off to view the flight. (In ed. of 1692.)
Dum licet inter nos igitur kctemur amantes;
Non satis est ullo tempore longus amor.
Let us enjoy pleasure while we can; pleasure
is never long enough.
Propertius—Elegim. I. 19. 25.
Diliguntur immodice sola quse non licent;
- * * non nutrit ardorem concupiscendi, ubi
frui licet.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite
desire.
QurNTiiiAN—Declamationes. XIV. 18.
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| text = <poem>Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QuiNTrLiAN—Declamationes. XXX. 6.
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Spangling the wave with lights as vain
As pleasures in this vale of pain,
That dazzle as they fade.
Scott—Lord of the Isles. Canto I. St. 23.
Boys who, being mature in knowledge,
Pawn their experience to their present pleasure.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 31.
And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.
Spenser—Faerie Queene. Bk. III. Canto X.
St. 60.
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| text = <poem>Non quam multis placeas, sed qualibus stude.
Do not care how many, but whom, you please.
Syrus—Maxims.
Prevalent illicita.
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Tacitus—Annates. XIII. 1.
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| text = <poem>Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs
it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let
sorrowful love wake in your eyes.
Rabindrath Tagore—Gardener. 27.
| seealso = (See also Burns)
I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house,
Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.
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| work = The Palace of Art. St. 1.
Nam id arbitror
Adprime in vita esse utile ut ne quid nimis.
I hold this to be the rule of life, "Too much
of anything is bad."
Terence—Andria. I. 1. 33.
They who are pleased themselves must always
please.
Thomson—The Castle of Indolence. Canto I.
St. 15.
Trahit sua quemque voluptas.
His own especial pleasure attracts each one.
VERGiii—Eclogm. II. 65. «
Zu oft ist kurze Lust die Quelle langer Schmerzen!
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of
long woes.
Wieland—Oberon. II. 52.
