"Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's……" — Catullus
"Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky."
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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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Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets…
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How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the…
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'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
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The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the…
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Late February, and the air's so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard…
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A springlike autumn's balmy breeze reaches afar. The sun shines on the house of a recluse South of the river;…
— Sun Bu'er
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When Spring unlocks the flowers To paint the laughing soil; When summer's balmy breezes Refresh the mower's toil; When winter…
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Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of…
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How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes…
— John Armstrong
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance;…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a…
— Anne Rice
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We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only…
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