Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
c. 55 BC · Roman Republic
Poor Catullus, stop playing the fool, and what you see is lost, count as lost.
Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire,
et quod vides perisse perditum ducas.Poem 8
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Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
c. 55 BC · Roman Republic
I hate and I love. Why do I do it, you may ask. I do not know, but I feel it happening, and I am in torment.
Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.Poem 85
Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso
c. 16 BC · Roman Empire
They struggle, and pull my light heart opposite ways, love on this side, hate on that. But love, I think, is winning. I shall hate if I can. If not, I shall love against my will.
Luctantur pectusque leve in contraria tendunt
hac amor hac odium, sed, puto, vincit amor.
odero, si potero; si non, invitus amabo.Amores (Loves) 3.11
Martial Marcus Valerius Martialis
c. AD 101 · Roman Empire
Difficult and easy, pleasant and sour, you are all of these at once: I cannot live with you, nor without you.
Difficilis facilis, iucundus acerbus es idem:
nec tecum possum vivere, nec sine te.Epigrams 12.46
Akutagawa Ryunosuke 芥川龍之介
1923 · Taisho Japan · He goes on: Werther, Romeo, Tristan, the lovers of old were all men of leisure
What saves us from love is not reason so much as being busy. Love, too, to be carried through properly, needs time above all.
我我を恋愛から救うものは理性よりも寧ろ多忙である。恋愛も亦完全に行われる為には何よりも時間を持たなければならぬ。Words of a Dwarf (Shuju no kotoba), "Busyness"
Hafez حافظ
14th century · Shiraz, Persia
Come, cupbearer, pass the cup round and hand it to me too, for love looked easy at first, and then the troubles came.
الا یا ایها الساقی ادر کأسا و ناولها
که عشق آسان نمود اول ولی افتاد مشکل هاDivan of Hafez, the first ghazal
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