"I can imagine no greater misfortune for a……" — Catullus
"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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26 Quotes by Catullus
Catullus has 26 quotes on this site.
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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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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an…
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
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Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
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During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
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