For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
CATULLUSLet us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
More Catullus Quotes
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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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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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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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 confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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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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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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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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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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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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