Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
CATULLUSThere is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
More Catullus Quotes
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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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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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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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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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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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. 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 write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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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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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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