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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness. - [Wantonness] Nothing is sillier than a silly laugh. [Lat., Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.] - [Laughter : Silliness] So a maiden, while she remains untouched, remains dear to her own; but when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls. - [Virgins] The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream. - [Vows] We see not our own backs. - [Proverbs] What a woman says to her fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.] - (Latin) [Proverbs : Women] What a woman says to her lover should be written on air or swift water. - [Courtship] O, what is more sweet than when the mind, set free from care, lays its burden down; and, when spent with distant travel, we come back to our home, and rest our limbs on the wished-for bed? This, this alone, repays such toils as these! [Lat., O! quid solutis est beatius curis! Cum mens onus reponit, ac pergrino Labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum Desideratoque acquiescimus lecto. Hoc est, quod unum est pro laboribus tantis.] - Carmina (31, 7) [Rest] 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.] - Carmina (III, 11) [Death] What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? [Lat., Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?] - Carmina (LXII, 30) [Happiness] The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. [Lat., Omnia fanda, nefanda, malo permista furore, Justificam nobis mentem avertere deorum.] - Carmina (LXIV, 406) [Gods] What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.] - Carmina (LXX, 3) [Love] It is difficult at once to relinquish a long-cherished love. [Lat., Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem.] - Carmina (LXXVI, 13) [Love] I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.] - Carmina (LXXXV, 1) [Hatred : Love] My Lesbia, let us live and love. [Lat., Vivamus, mea Lesbia atque amemus.] - Carmina (V, 1) [Love] Suns may set and rise; we, when our short day has closed, must sleep on during one neverending night. [Lat., Soles occidere et redire possunt; Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, Nox est perpetua una dormienda.] - Carmina (V, 4) [Death] Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. [Lat., Suus quoque attributus est error: Sed non videmus, manticae quid in tergo est.] - Carmina (XXII, 20) [Faults] Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. [Lat., Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.] - Carmina (XXXIX, 16) [Laughter]
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