What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
CATULLUSGive up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
More Catullus Quotes
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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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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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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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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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 up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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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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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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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