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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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Escape Yourself
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
CATULLUS

Foolish Laugh One Liner
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
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Better Death Gratitude Live Worth
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
CATULLUS

Hate Love Myself
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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Live Myself Relationship Togetherness
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Destruction Water Wine Yourself
My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Animal Bird Death Delight Myself Women
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.
CATULLUS

Agony Emotion Feeling Hate Known Love Myself Tear
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
CATULLUS

Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
CATULLUS

Feeling Hate Known Love Myself Torment
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
CATULLUS

Chaste God Himself Poem Poet
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
CATULLUS

Lover Relationship Water Woman Writing
To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
CATULLUS

Book Little Myself One Liner
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.]
CATULLUS

Feeling Hate Myself Query Question Torture
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.
CATULLUS

Civil Culture Greatness Imagination Misfortune People Power Religious Ruler

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