It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
CATULLUSI hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
More Catullus Quotes
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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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 love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.
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We see not our own backs.
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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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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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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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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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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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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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