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.
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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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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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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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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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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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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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 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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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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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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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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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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