What did Ovid mean by: There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet. - Ovid Poet · Italy Copy
+ When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Lightning, Strikes, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Heart, Sick, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Care, Mind, Wine, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Dog, Power, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Heaven, Stars, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Delay, Time, Wise, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Atheism, Believe, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Powerful, United, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art. - Ludwig van Beethoven Composer · Germany
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure. - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
