We see not our own backs.

- Catullus

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

- Catullus

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

- Catullus

But you shall not escape my iambics.

- Catullus

Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I se…

- Catullus

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

- Catullus

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

- Catullus

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

- Catullus

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

- Catullus