Catullus Quotes

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• Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

  Catullus

  Funny Valentines Day, Kissing, Giving

  Gaius Valerius Catullus, Peter Green (2005). “The Poems of Catullus”, p.49, Univ of California Press

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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.

  Catullus

  Love, Hate, Two

  Gaius Valerius Catullus (1983). “The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition”, p.197, Univ of California Press

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• Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

  Catullus

  Bird, Sparrows, Birdsong

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

  Catullus

  Gratitude, Giving Up, Grateful

  'Carmina' no. 73

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• Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!

  Catullus

  Age, Ill

  Gaius Valerius Catullus (1988). “Catullus, Tibullus, and Pervigilium Veneris”, Loeb Classical Library

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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.

  Catullus

  Laughter, Men, Tears

  Gaius Valerius Catullus (1983). “The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition”, p.110, Univ of California Press

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• It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

  Catullus

  Love, Passion, Difficult

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• But you shall not escape my iambics.

  Catullus

  Funny, Humor

  R. A. B. Mynors (ed.) 'Catulli Carmina' (1958) 'Fragment 3'

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• Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

  Catullus

  Wine, Water, Destruction

  Gaius Valerius Catullus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Catullus (Illustrated)”, p.27, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Catullus

  Religious, Hands, People

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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.

  Catullus

  Blessed, Home, Tired

  'Carmina' no. 31

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• Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

  Catullus

  Laughter, Silly

  "Carmina". XXXIX, 16,

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• It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem

  Catullus

  Love, Giving Up, Long

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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.]

  Catullus

  Love, Air, Aqua

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• We see not our own backs.

  Catullus

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• The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.

  Catullus

  Favors, Gracious, Fury

  "Carmina". LXIV. 406,

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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.]

  Catullus

  Love, Hate, Hatred

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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.]

  Catullus

  Death, Dark, Path

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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.

  Catullus

  Air, Lovers, Fit

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• What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

  Catullus

  Running, Women, Writing

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• Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

  Catullus

  Faults, Wallets

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 265-67, Carmina, XXII. 20, 1922.

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• For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

  Catullus

  Godly, Needs, Poet

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• Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus

  Catullus

  Love

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• Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.

  Catullus

  Thank You, Gratitude, Grateful

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• I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

  Catullus

  Writing, Youth, Access

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