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.
CATULLUSGodlike 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.
More Catullus Quotes
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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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 love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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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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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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My mind’s sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn’t like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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