Quotes by Catullus - Page 1

We see not our own backs.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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Funny
Humor
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Destruction
Water
Wine
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Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
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Laughter
Silly
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Hate
I Hate
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Age
Ill
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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Laughing
Silly
Stupid
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Love
Difficult
Passion
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Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale
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Brother
Bye
Good Bye
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Bird
Birdsong
Sparrows
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Valentine
Funny Valentines Day
Giving
Kissing
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My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
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Delight
Sparrows
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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Faults
Wallets
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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Book
Giving
Littles
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What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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Running
Air
Writing
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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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Running
Women
Air
Writing
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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Access
Writing
Youth
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Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Thank You
Grateful
Gratitude
Thinking
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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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Love
Agony
Hate
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est
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Foolish
Laughing
Laughter
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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Giving Up
Grateful
Gratitude
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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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Godly
Needs
Poet
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I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
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And Love
Feels
Hate
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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Love
Giving Up
Long
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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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Love
Hate
Two
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Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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Sky
Spring
Sweet
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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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Favors
Fury
Gracious
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The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
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Air
Fit
Lovers
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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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Hands
People
Religious
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Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]
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Death
Dark
Path
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Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.
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Men
Laughter
Tears
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What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
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Love
Air
Aqua
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So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
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Girl
Boys
Flower
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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 the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.
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Loving You
Matter
Mind
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I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]
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Love
Hate
Hatred
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Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.
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Home
Blessed
Tired
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