Bitter and sweet, alluring and tormenting: <br /> Such, till it be fulfilled, Kyrnos, is love to the young; <br />For if one finds fulfillment, it proves sweet; but if, pursuing, <br /> One fails of fulfillment, then of all things it is most painful.<br /><br />Theognis<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fragments-lines-1353-1356/