Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away!

The line expresses a moment of release: the speaker praises the rare happiness of setting worries aside. In Catullus’s poetry this kind of sentiment often appears in contrast to emotional turbulence—love, jealousy, social obligations, or the pressures of travel and public life—so the “blessed” state is not permanent tranquility but a hard-won interval of respite. The exclamation frames carelessness (in the sense of being free from care) as a positive good, suggesting that peace of mind is itself a form of pleasure. Read broadly, it aligns with ancient ethical commonplaces about easing the mind’s burdens, even when external circumstances remain unchanged.