I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
CATULLUSWe see not our own backs.
More Catullus Quotes
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We see not our own backs.
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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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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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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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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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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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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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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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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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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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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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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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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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