The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
CATULLUSFor the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
More Catullus Quotes
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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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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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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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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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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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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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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We see not our own backs.
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