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.
CATULLUSI hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
More Catullus Quotes
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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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We see not our own backs.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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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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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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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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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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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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