Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
CATULLUSThe confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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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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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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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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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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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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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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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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