But you shall not escape my iambics.
CATULLUSLet us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
More Catullus Quotes
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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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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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Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
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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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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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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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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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