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

 

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
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This quote is just one of 9 total Catullus quotes in our collection. Catullus is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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

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Most wretched men are cradled to poetry by wrong: they learn in suffering what they teach in song.

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My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women, - or stop loving you, no matter what you do.

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

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