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.]
CATULLUSEvery one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
More Catullus Quotes
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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 if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
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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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Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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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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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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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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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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