I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
CATULLUSWe see not our own backs.
More Catullus Quotes
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My mind’s sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn’t like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]
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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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We see not our own backs.
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