Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
CATULLUSWhat women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
More Catullus Quotes
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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We see not our own backs.
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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 lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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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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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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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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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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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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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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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 me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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