There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
CATULLUSGodlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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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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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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We see not our own backs.
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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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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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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Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.
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