"Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no…" — Catullus
"Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all."
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26 Quotes by Catullus
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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…
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So a maiden, while she remains untouched, remains dear to her own; but when she has lost her chaste flower…
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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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