Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
CATULLUSMy lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
More Catullus Quotes
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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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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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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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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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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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 suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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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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We see not our own backs.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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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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