I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
CATULLUSEvery one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
More Catullus Quotes
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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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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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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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 me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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