Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
CATULLUSMy 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.
More Catullus Quotes
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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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I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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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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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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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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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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We see not our own backs.
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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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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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