What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
CATULLUSI write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
More Catullus Quotes
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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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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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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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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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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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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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on 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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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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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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We see not our own backs.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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