Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
CATULLUSI hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
More Catullus Quotes
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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We see not our own backs.
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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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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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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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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.
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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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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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