What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
CATULLUSStop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
More Catullus Quotes
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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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I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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We see not our own backs.
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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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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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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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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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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What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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