Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
CATULLUSGive me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
More Catullus Quotes
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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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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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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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We see not our own backs.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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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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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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