There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
CATULLUSOh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
More Catullus Quotes
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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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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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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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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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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