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.
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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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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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…
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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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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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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…
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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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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My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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