Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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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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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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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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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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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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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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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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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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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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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We see not our own backs.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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