Catullus Short Quotes

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Poor Catullus, you should cease your folly.

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And forever, O my brother, hail and farewell!

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Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!

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May it live and last for more than one century.

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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.

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Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away!

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O ye gods, grant me this in return for my piety.

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It is not fit that men should be compared with gods.

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Idleness ere now has ruined both kings and wealthy cities.

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What is given by the gods more desirable than the fortunate hour?

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To whom shall I give my nice new little book polished dry with pumice?

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Now he goes along the dark road, thither whence they say no one returns.

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Now he goes along the darksome road, thither whence they say no one returns.

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You ask me, Lesbia, how many kisses
it will take to make me fully satisfied?

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What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

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Here's my small book out, nice and new, Fresh-bound — whom shall I give it to?

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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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Not unknown am I to the goddess [Venus] who mingles with her cares a sweet bitterness.

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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anybody can be grateful.

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What a woman says to a passionate lover
should be written in the wind and the running water.

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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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I hate and I love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it and I am in torment.

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But what a woman says to her lusting lover it is best to write in wind and swift-flowing water.

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All right and wrong, confounded in impious madness, turned from us the righteous will of the gods.

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I hate and I love: why I do so you may well ask. I do not know, but I feel it happen and am in agony.

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Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anyone can ever become grateful.

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I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do it? I don't know, but I feel it happening and am tortured.

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If anything has happened to one who ever yearned and wished but never hoped, that is a rare pleasure of the soul.

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The evening is come; rise up, ye youths. Vesper from Olympus now at last is just raising his long-looked-for light.

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Mourn, ye Graces and Loves, and all you whom the Graces love. My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow, my lady's pet.

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