Quotes from Catullus

I hate and I love. Wherefore do I so, peradventure thou askest. I know not, but I feel it to be thus and I suffer.

?d? et am?. Qu?r? id faciam fortasse requ?ris. Nesci?, sed fier? senti? et excrucior.

But that, Flavius, hardly nice or honest This thy folly, methinks Catullus also

POOR Catullus, 'tis time you should cease your folly, and account as lost what you see is lost.

Da mi basia mille. (Give me a thousand kisses)

Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. I hate and I love. Why do I, you ask? I do not know, but I feel it happening and it hurts.

I hate & love. And if you should ask how I can do both, I couldn't say; but I feel it, and it shivers me.

let us forever serve this one master, so that a passion far grander and keener may burn in my soft marrow.

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!

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.]

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

What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.