Quotes from Gaius Valerius Catullus

Poor Catullus, you should cease your folly.

The evening is come; rise up, ye youths. Vesper from Olympus now at last is just raising his long-looked-for light.

Now he goes along the dark road, thither whence they say no one returns.

Not unknown am I to the goddess [Venus] who mingles with her cares a sweet bitterness.

Now spring brings back balmy warmth.

But you, Catullus, be resolved and firm.

Odi et amo. Quare I'd faciam, fortasse requiris.

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio. des fieri sentio et excrucior. I hate and I love. You may ask, why I do this. I do not know. But I sense that I do and it pains me.

Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem, difficile est, verum hoc qua lubet efficias.