Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
CATULLUSWhat women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
More Catullus Quotes
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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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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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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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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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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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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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]
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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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