“Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anyone can ever become grateful.”

— Gaio Valerio Catullo , list of poems by Catullus

LXXIII, lines 1–2
Carmina

Original

Desine de quoquam quicquam bene velle mereri, Aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium.

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Latin poet -84–-54 BC

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