We see not our own backs.
CATULLUSStop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
More Catullus Quotes
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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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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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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 hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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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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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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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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Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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