Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
CATULLUSAway with you, water, destruction of wine!
More Catullus Quotes
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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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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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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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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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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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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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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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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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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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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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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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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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