The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
CATULLUSIt is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
More Catullus Quotes
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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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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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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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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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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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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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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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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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