Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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 hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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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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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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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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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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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 love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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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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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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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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