Catullus Quotes

Cui dono lepidum novum libellum
Arido modo pumice expolitum?

Siqua recordanti benefacta priora voluptas
Est homini.

You ask how many kissings of you, Lesbia, are enough for me and more than enough?

I hate and love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it, and I am in torment.

Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
rumoresque senum severiorum
omnes unius aestimemus assis
soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.

What he himself is, whether he is or is not, he does not know so much as this.

Desine de quoquam quicquam bene velle mereri,
Aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium.

Da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,
deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.

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.

Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.

Per caputque pedesque.

Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anyone can ever become grateful.

Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem.

Omnia fanda nefanda malo permixta furore
iustificam nobis mentem avertere deorum.

Nunc iam nulla viro iuranti femina credat,
nulla viri speret sermones esse fideles;
quis dum aliquid cupiens animus praegestit apisci,
nil metuunt iurare, nihil promittere parcunt:
sed simul ac cupidae mentis satiata libido est,
dicta nihil metuere, nihil periuria curant.