Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
CATULLUSBut you shall not escape my iambics.
More Catullus Quotes
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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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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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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
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We see not our own backs.
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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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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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