Nothing is sweeter than desire. All other delights are second.
From my mouth I spit even honey.
Nossis says this. Whom Aphrodite does not love,
knows not her flowers, what roses they are.
From: http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/erinna.shtml
Date: 3rd century BCE (original in Greek); 2000 (translation in English)
By: Nossis (3rd century BCE)
Translated by: Marilyn B. Skinner (19??- )
From Troubles of The World 