The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
CATULLUSIt is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
More Catullus Quotes
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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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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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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We see not our own backs.
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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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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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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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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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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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