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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus

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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Gratitude Oneself Stop Thinking
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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Lover Relationship Water Woman Writing
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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Darkness Path Return Travel
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Age Birth Birthday Cake Surprise Taste
Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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Calm Heat Rage Restore Sky Spring
Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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Deserve Give Up Gratitude Thankful Thinking
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Better Death Gratitude Live Worth
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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Civil Culture Greatness Imagination Misfortune People Power Religious Ruler
So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
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Chaste Herself Lost Maid Sex Women
What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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Lover Myself Running Water Women Writing
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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Angry Favor God Right Wild Wrong
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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Laughter One Liner Silly
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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Feeling Hate Known Love Myself Torment
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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Live Myself Relationship Togetherness
We see not our own backs.
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Back Mistake One Liner Ourselves

Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus

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