voluptatibus

• “There is no pleasure in this world comparable to it, 'tis summum mortalitatis bonum — [4721] hominum divumque voluptas, Alma Venus — latet enim in muliere aliquid majus potentiusque, omnibus aliis humanis voluptatibus, as”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Vitiosum quum soli pauperum liberi educantur ad labores, nobilium et divitum in voluptatibus et deliciis.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “E mediis hunc arenis in coelum usque attolli prodiderunt celebrati auctores, asperum, squalentem, qua vergat ad litora Oceani, cui cognomen imposuit: eundem opacum nemorosumque, et scatebris fontium riguum; qua spectat Africam, fructibus omnium generum sponte ita subnascentibus, ut nunqnam satietas voluptatibus desit.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “* Carnales dicimur, quando totos nos voluptatibus damus; spirituales, quando Spiritum Sanctum praevium sequimur; id est, cum ipso sapimus instruente, ipso ducimur auctore.”

  Pneumatologia

• “Neque mirum: ubi vos separatim sibi quisque consilium capitis, ubi domi voluptatibus, hic [289] pecuniae aut gratiae servitis, eo fit, ut impetus fiat in vacuam [290] rem publicam.”

  C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino

• “Si divina nostris animis origo, tendendum ad virtutem, nec voluptatibus terreni corporis serviendum.”

  A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements

• “Illecebrosa quoque interserat, puellarum lasciviam, viduarum, quibus libet quidquid libet, libertatem, conjugum in viris fallendis explendisque voluptatibus astutiam depingat.”

  A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance

• “* Vos vero suspensi interim atque solliciti honestis voluptatibus abstinetis, non spectacula visitis, non pompis interestis, convivia publica absque vobis, sacra certamina: [1783] 1”

  The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries

• “: “Vos vero suspensi interim atque solliciti honestis voluptatibus abstinetis, non spectacula visitis, non pompis interestis, convivia publica absque vobis, sacra certamina” (“But meantime, anxious and unsettled, you are abstaining from respectable enjoyments; you attend no spectacles, you take no part in public displays, public banquets and the sacred contest you decline”).”

  The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries

• “His motto was: “Sic praesentibus voluptatibus utaris ut futuris non noceas.””

  Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century

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