Virgil Quotes
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Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.
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Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
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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.
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Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
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From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
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We can't all do everything.
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People are able because they think they're able
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Fear reveals baseborn souls!
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Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.
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From a single crime know the nation.
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Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.
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Time passes irrevocably.
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None but himself can be his parallel.
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E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.
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Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses
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Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
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Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
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Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.
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Fear betrays unworthy souls.
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Thus shall you go to the stars.
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Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
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Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.
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How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?
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Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.
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Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.
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Who can blind lover's eyes?
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The greatest health is wealth.
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The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti
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Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.
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A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)
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