Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
CATULLUS
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
More Catullus Quotes
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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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I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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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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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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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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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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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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