Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
CATULLUSAway with you, water, destruction of wine!
More Catullus Quotes
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We see not our own backs.
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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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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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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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Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]
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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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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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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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