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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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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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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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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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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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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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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