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 More Quotes by Catullus More Quotes From Catullus Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. Catullus path dark death What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. Catullus aqua air love Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more. Catullus funny-valentines-day kissing giving It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion. Catullus difficult passion love 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 hate love two But you shall not escape my iambics. Catullus humor funny It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem Catullus giving-up love long Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is! Catullus ill age Godlike the man who Catullus laughter tears men Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all. Catullus birdsong sparrows bird Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. Catullus laughter silly 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 tired blessed home Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful. Catullus gratitude grateful giving-up There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est Catullus laughter foolish laughing Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale Catullus good-bye brother bye We see not our own backs. Catullus 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. Catullus hate hatred love Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. Catullus wallets faults For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so. Catullus godly poet needs Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus Catullus love
