My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
CATULLUSI write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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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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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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We see not our own backs.
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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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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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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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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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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