We see not our own backs.
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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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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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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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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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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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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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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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 write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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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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