62 Quotes by Catullus

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

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.

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

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.]

There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh

Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.