Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
CATULLUSThere is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
More Catullus Quotes
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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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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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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We see not our own backs.
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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 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.]
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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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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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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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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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