Virgil Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Virgil
Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere. — Virgil
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. — Virgil
Swift is her walk, more swift her winged haste: A monstrous phantom, horrible and vast. As many plumes as raise her lofty flight, So many piercing eyes inlarge her sight; Millions of opening mouths to Fame belong, And ev'ry mouth is furnish'd with a tongue, And round with list'ning ears the flying plague is hung. She fills the peaceful universe with cries; No slumbers ever close her wakeful eyes; By day, from lofty tow'rs her head she shews, And spreads thro' trembling crowds disastrous news; With court informers haunts, and royal spies; Things done relates, not done she feigns, and mingles truth with lies. Talk is her business, and her chief delight To tell of prodigies and cause affright. — Virgil
And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up:
For now the seventh summer carries you,
A wanderer, across the lands and waters. — Virgil
Over nine whole acres while a huge, horrendous Vulture puddles forever with hooked beak In his liver and entrails teeming with raw pain. It burrows deep below the breastbone, feeding And foraging without respite, for the gnawed-at Gut and gutstrings keep renewing. — Virgil
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. — Virgil
What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love? The flame keeps gnawing into her tender marrow hour by hour, and deep in her heart the silent wound lives on. — Virgil
Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low. — Virgil
Duty bound, Aeneas, though he struggled with desire to calm and comfort her in all her pain, to speak to her and turn her mind from grief, and though he sighed his heart out, shaken still with love if her, yet took the course heaven gave him and turned back to the fleet. — Virgil
Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate. — Virgil
The signs of the old flame, I know them well.
I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down
or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,
the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,
before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws. — Virgil
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods. — Virgil
The medicine increases the disease. — Virgil
A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor. — Virgil
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind. — Virgil
From one learn all. — Virgil
Nd why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea
and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl ... — Virgil
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. — Virgil
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. — Virgil
Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy. — Virgil
The accursed hunger for gold. — Virgil
Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth. — Virgil
But the queen
too long she has suffered the pain of love,
hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,
consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [ ... ]
His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling
no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none. — Virgil
Persistent work triumphs. — Virgil
Fortune favours the bold. — Virgil
Here, too, the honorable finds its due
and there are tears for passing things; here, too,
things mortal touch the mind. — Virgil
Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love. — Virgil
Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed. — Virgil
If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell. — Virgil
Then answered her son, who turns the stars in the sky:
'What way art thou bending fate, Mother? What dost thou ask
For these thy ships? May vessels built by the hands
Of mortal men claim an immortal right?
Is Aeneas to pass, sure of the outcome, through dangers
When nothing is sure? To what god is such power allowed? — Virgil
Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods? — Virgil
Fear reveals baseborn souls! — Virgil
Even virtue is fairer in a fair body. — Virgil
I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in letters on the little trees/ The story of my love, and as the trees/ Will grow letters too will grow, to cry/ In a louder voice the story of my love. — Virgil
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. — Virgil
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. — Virgil
Trust the expert. -Experto credite — Virgil
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
They are able because they think they are able. — Virgil
Who can blind lover's eyes? — Virgil
Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction — Virgil
Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud! — Virgil
Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes. — Virgil
Rhoetus was fully awake; he saw all that occurred but was hiding, 345 Watching in fear from behind a huge bowl where the wine had been blended. But he arose as the enemy neared and Euryalus plunged his Blade hilt-deep in his chest, then withdrew. Death came in abundance. Spewing the crimson of life, he returns to the bowl a new mixture: Wine and his blood as he dies. — Virgil
Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things. — Virgil
Look with favor upon a bold beginning. — Virgil
Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely. — Virgil
Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant. — Virgil
Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts. — Virgil
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms. — Virgil
We can't all do everything. — Virgil
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person. — Virgil
But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained. — Virgil
I too am a poet who has found some favour with the Muse. I too have written songs. I too have heard the shepherds call me bard. But I take it from them with a grain of salt: I have the feeling that I cannot yet compare with Varius or Cinna, but cackle like a goose among melodious swans. — Virgil
The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind. — Virgil
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. — Virgil
The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions. — Virgil
Yet here, this night, you might repose with me, On green leaves pillowed: apples ripe have I, Soft chestnuts, and of curdled milk enow. And, see, the farm-roof chimneys smoke afar, And from the hills the shadows lengthening fall! — Virgil
A fault is fostered by concealment. — Virgil
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. — Virgil
Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next. — Virgil
Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing. — Virgil
She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire. — Virgil
Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. — Virgil
Hug the shore; let others try the deep. — Virgil
In quarrels such as these
not ours to intervene. — Virgil
Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.
Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love. — Virgil
Go forth a conqueror and win great victories. — Virgil
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. — Virgil