Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
CATULLUSOh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
More Catullus Quotes
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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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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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What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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 lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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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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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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We see not our own backs.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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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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