There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
CATULLUSI hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
More Catullus Quotes
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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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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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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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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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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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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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We see not our own backs.
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