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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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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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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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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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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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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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become 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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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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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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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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I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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