Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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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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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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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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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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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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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