Virgil Quotes

A fault is fostered by concealment.


Age carries all things away, even the mind.


Age steals away all things, even the mind.


All our sweetest hours fly fastest.


All things deteriorate in time.


As the twig is bent the tree inclines.


Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.


But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.


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


Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.


Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.


Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.


Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.


Each of us bears his own Hell.


Endure the present, and watch for better things.


Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.


Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.


Every man makes a god of his own desire.


Every sound alarms.


Fate will find a way.


Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.


Fortune favors the bold.


Fortune favours the bold.


Fortune sides with him who dares.


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


From one learn all.


Fury itself supplies arms.


Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.


Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.


Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.


He enters the port with a full sail.


He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.


Hug the shore; let others try the deep.


I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.


I shudder when relating it.


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


If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.


In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?


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.


It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.


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


Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.


Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.


Love conquers all.


Mind moves matter.


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


None but himself can be his parallel.


O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!


One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.


Passion and strife bow down the mind.


Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.


Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.


Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.


The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.


The medicine increases the disease.


The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.


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.


Their rage supplies them with weapons.


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


There's a snake lurking in the grass.


They are able because they think they are able.


They can conquer who believe they can.


They succeed, because they think they can.


Time flies never to be recalled.


Time is flying never to return.


Time passes irrevocably.


To have died once is enough.


Trust not to much to appearances.


Trust one who has tried.


Veiling truth in mystery.


Want of pluck shows want of blood.


We can't all do everything.


What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.


What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?


Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.


Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?


Who can blind lover's eyes?


Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.


Your descendants shall gather your fruits.