Top 189 Quotes & Sayings by Virgil - Page 2

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

Who can blind lover's eyes?

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

He enters the port with a full sail.

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

Fury itself supplies arms.

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

Want of pluck shows want of blood.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

All things deteriorate in time.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

I shudder when relating it.

The accursed hunger for gold.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Every man makes a god of his own desire

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.

The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.

Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall.

A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.

Fear betrays unworthy souls.

Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!

Love conquers all things.

Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time

Fortune sides with he who dares

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

Persistent work triumphs.

Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.

Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy.

From a single crime know the nation.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.

Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps, and come back out into the brightness above, that is the work, that is the labor.

Trust not too much to appearances

Each man is led by his own liking.

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

They can do all because they think they can.

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

Endure and save yourselves for happier times.

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.

Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.