Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est
What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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.
I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.