Ovid Quotes, Pain Quotes, Sadism Quotes

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

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She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

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Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

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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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Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

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Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

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Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]

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Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

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Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.

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

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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

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Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

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That you may be beloved, be amiable.

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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

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Venus favors the bold.

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Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

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There will grow from straws a mighty heap.

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The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.

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