1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

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

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  • Author Agnes Repplier
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    While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

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  • Author Joshua Reynolds
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    What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand.

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