It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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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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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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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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What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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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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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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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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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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