Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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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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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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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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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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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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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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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 love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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