Quotes by Virgil

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