Catullus Quotes

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• I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
• Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
• Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
• Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
• Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
• It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
• 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.
• So a maiden, while she remains untouched, remains dear to her own; but when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains…
• I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
• Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
• It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
• Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale
• There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
• There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est
• To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
• 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…
• Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
• What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
• My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
• Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

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