Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
CATULLUSGive up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
More Catullus Quotes
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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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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Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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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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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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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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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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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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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