To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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.
More Catullus Quotes
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Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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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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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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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 if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
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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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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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