Catullus Quotes
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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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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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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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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. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus