Virgil Quotes
"Who can blind lover's eyes?"
- Virgil
(Related: Blind, Eyes)
"Your descendants shall gather your fruits."
- Virgil
"One man excels in eloquence, another in arms."
- Virgil
(Related: Eloquence, Man)
"The medicine increases the disease."
- Virgil
(Related: Disease, Medicine)
"The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety."
- Virgil
(Related: Safety)
"The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub."
- Virgil
"Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances."
- Virgil
(Related: Circumstances)
"Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy."
- Virgil
(Related: Day, Joy, May)
"Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember."
- Virgil
(Related: Day, Will)
"Passion and strife bow down the mind."
- Virgil
(Related: Mind, Passion)
"O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!"
- Virgil
(Related: Gold, Hunger)
"None but himself can be his parallel."
- Virgil
"Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate."
- Virgil
(Related: Help, Misfortune)
"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."
- Virgil
(Related: Man, Woman, World)
"Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?"
- Virgil
(Related: Strategy, Enemy, Valor)
"They succeed, because they think they can."
- Virgil
(Related: Succeed)
"Love conquers all."
- Virgil
(Related: Love)
"Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all."
- Virgil
(Related: Love, Rules)
"Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth."
- Virgil
(Related: Youth)
"Mind moves matter."
- Virgil
(Related: Mind)
"To have died once is enough."
- Virgil
"Hug the shore; let others try the deep."
- Virgil
(Related: Deep)
"Wherever the fates lead us let us follow."
- Virgil
"What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?"
- Virgil
(Related: Earth)
"What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another."
- Virgil
(Related: Man, Ruin, Trouble)
"We can't all do everything."
- Virgil
"Want of pluck shows want of blood."
- Virgil
(Related: Blood, Want)
"Veiling truth in mystery."
- Virgil
(Related: Truth, Mystery)
"They can because they think they can."
- Virgil
"Trust not to much to appearances."
- Virgil
(Related: Trust)
"Their rage supplies them with weapons."
- Virgil
(Related: Weapons)
"Time passes irrevocably."
- Virgil
(Related: Time)
"Time is flying never to return."
- Virgil
(Related: Time, Flying)
"Time flies never to be recalled."
- Virgil
(Related: Time, Flies)
"It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be."
- Virgil
(Related: May, Sheep)
"They can conquer who believe they can."
- Virgil
"They are able because they think they are able."
- Virgil
"There's a snake lurking in the grass."
- Virgil
"There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead."
- Virgil
"Trust one who has tried."
- Virgil
(Related: Trust)
"Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched."
- Virgil
(Related: Now)
"Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person."
- Virgil
(Related: Virtue)
"Each of us bears his own Hell."
- Virgil
(Related: Hell)
"It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task."
- Virgil
(Related: Death, Day, Hell, Night)
"Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses."
- Virgil
(Related: Will)
"Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety."
- Virgil
(Related: Confidence, Rest, Safety)
"Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance."
- Virgil
(Related: Endurance, Fortune, May)
"Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance."
- Virgil
(Related: Calamity, Endurance)
"But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained."
- Virgil
(Related: Time, Flies)
"Endure the present, and watch for better things."
- Virgil
(Related: Present)
"As the twig is bent the tree inclines."
- Virgil
"All things deteriorate in time."
- Virgil
(Related: Time)
"All our sweetest hours fly fastest."
- Virgil
"Age steals away all things, even the mind."
- Virgil
(Related: Age, Mind)
"Age carries all things away, even the mind."
- Virgil
(Related: Age, Mind)
"A fault is fostered by concealment."
- Virgil
(Related: Fault)
"I shudder when relating it."
- Virgil
"Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers."
- Virgil
(Related: Gods)
"Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things."
- Virgil
(Related: Causes, Man)
"In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?"
- Virgil
(Related: Courage)
"If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong."
- Virgil
(Related: God, Race, Right, Wrong)
"If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another."
- Virgil
(Related: Will)
"I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."
- Virgil
(Related: Fear, Gifts)
"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you."
- Virgil
(Related: Fortune, Yield)
"He enters the port with a full sail."
- Virgil
"Every man makes a god of his own desire."
- Virgil
(Related: God, Desire, Man)
"Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes."
- Virgil
(Related: Causes)
"Go forth a conqueror and win great victories."
- Virgil
"Fate will find a way."
- Virgil
(Related: Fate, Will)
"From one learn all."
- Virgil
"From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods."
- Virgil
(Related: Gods, Example)
"Fortune sides with him who dares."
- Virgil
(Related: Fortune)
"Fortune favours the bold."
- Virgil
(Related: Fortune)
"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind."
- Virgil
(Related: Fear, Mind, Proof)
"Every sound alarms."
- Virgil
(Related: Sound)
"Fury itself supplies arms."
- Virgil
"He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground."
- Virgil
(Related: Sea)