Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
CATULLUSWhat a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
More Catullus Quotes
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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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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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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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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