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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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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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 hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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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 love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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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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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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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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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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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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