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.
CATULLUSWhat women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
More Catullus Quotes
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We see not our own backs.
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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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Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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 hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]
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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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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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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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