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