Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
CATULLUSGive me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
More Catullus Quotes
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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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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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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 foolish than a foolish laugh.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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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 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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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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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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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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