What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
CATULLUSWe see not our own backs.
More Catullus Quotes
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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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Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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We see not 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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I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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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.
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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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