There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
CATULLUSMy lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
More Catullus Quotes
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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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What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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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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We see not our own backs.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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.]
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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