I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
CATULLUSThe vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
More Catullus Quotes
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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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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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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 love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
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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 woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
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We see not our own backs.
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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There is nothing more silly than a silly 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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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be 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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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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