Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
CATULLUSNow Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
More Catullus Quotes
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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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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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What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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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 I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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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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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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We see not our own backs.
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