I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
CATULLUSStop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
More Catullus Quotes
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be 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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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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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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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