Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
CATULLUSWe see not our own backs.
More Catullus Quotes
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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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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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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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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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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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There is nothing more silly than a silly 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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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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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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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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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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