
Dr. Johnson in conversation, April 15, 1778, reported in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1791) p. 948.
Criticism
April 15, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Dr. Johnson in conversation, April 15, 1778, reported in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1791) p. 948.
Criticism
“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“When the brain's pleasure circuits are 'on,' the violence circuits are 'off,' and vice versa.”
"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)
Context: Laboratory experiments show that... When the brain's pleasure circuits are 'on,' the violence circuits are 'off,' and vice versa.
“The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
“Pleasure can only be experienced after going through pain and vice versa.”
The New York Herald-Tribune Magazine (6 March 1938)
1930s
“Labor is itself a pleasure.”
Labor est etiam ipse voluptas.
Variant translation (reading ipsa): Even pleasure itself is a toil.
Book IV, line 155. Explained by Housman ad loc. The first reading is the correct one in the context.
Astronomica
“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”
Paris Review interview (1958)
No. 257
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
Source: Selected Essays, 1778-1830