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We see not our own backs.
Catullus
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Gaius Valerius Catullus
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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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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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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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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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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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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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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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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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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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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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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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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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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Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
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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. 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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