Gaius Valerius Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC) was a great Roman Latin lyric poet, born at Verona, a man of wealth and good standing, being, it would seem, of the equestrian order. He was associated with the best wits in Rome. Catullus fell in love with Clodia, a patrician lady, who was the inspiration, both in peace and war, of many of his effusions, and whom he addresses as Lesbia. The death of a brother affected him deeply, and was the occasion of the production of one of the most pathetic elegies ever penned. In the civic strife of the time he sided with the senate, and opposed Cæsar to the length of directing against him a coarse lampoon.Wisdom & Quotes
- Nothing is sillier than silly laughter.
- Carmina
- Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.
- Carmina
- What he himself is, whether he is or is not, he does not know so much as this.
- Carmina
- Idleness ere now has ruined both kings and wealthy cities.
- Carmina
- As a flower springs up secretly in a fenced garden, unknown to the cattle, torn up by no plough, which the winds caress, the sun strengthens, the shower draws forth, many boys, many girls, desire it.
- Carmina
- Henceforth let no woman believe a man's oath, let none believe that a man's speeches can be trustworthy. They, while their mind desires something and longs eagerly to gain it, nothing fear to swear, nothing spare to promise; but as soon as the lust of their greedy mind is satisfied, they fear not then their words, they heed not their perjuries.
- Carmina
- What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.
- Carmina
- Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anyone can ever become grateful.
- Carmina
- To this point is my mind reduced by your fault, Lesbia, and has so ruined itself by its own devotion, that now it can neither wish you well though you should become the best of women, nor cease to love you though you do the worst that can be done.
- Carmina
- I hate and love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it, and I am in torment.
- Carmina
- If anything ever happened to any one who eagerly longed and never hoped, that is a true pleasure to the mind.
- Carmina
- All right and wrong, confounded in impious madness, turned from us the righteous will of the gods.
- Carmina
Virgil
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