Catullus Quotes
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Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 – c. 54 BC) was a Roman poet, the dominant figure among the New Poets (neoterici) of the 1st century BC.
Also known as: Catullus, Gaius Valerius, Gaius Valerius Catullus
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What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.
To whom am I to present my pretty new book, freshly smoothed off with dry pumice stone?
It is difficult at once to relinquish a long-cherished love.
What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water.
Mourn, ye Graces and Loves, and all you whom the Graces love. My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow my lady's pet, whom she loved more than her own eyes.
If anything ever happened to any one who eagerly longed and never hoped, that is a true pleasure to the mind.
If a man can take any pleasure in recalling the thought of kindnesses done.
It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-standing love.
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
He seems to me to be equal to a god, he, if it may be, seems to surpass the very gods, who sitting opposite thee again and again gazes at thee and hears thee sweetly laughing.
All right and wrong, confounded in impious madness, turned from us the righteous will of the gods.
Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anyone can ever become grateful.
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
You ask how many kissings of you, Lesbia, are enough for me and more than enough?
What he himself is, whether he is or is not, he does not know so much as this.
Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns.
Now he goes along the dark road, thither whence they say no one returns.
What is given by the gods more desirable than the fortunate hour?
What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour?