Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
CATULLUSStop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
More Catullus Quotes
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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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We see not our own backs.
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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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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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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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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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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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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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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What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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