Virgil Quotes

Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.

~ Virgil

Omnia vincit amor - Love conquers all

~ Virgil

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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forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day

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Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

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Fortune sides with him who dares.

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Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.

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Hug the shore, let others try the deep.

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Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?

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Death's brother, sleep.

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Facilis descensus Averno:Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;Sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras,Hoc opus, hic labor est.(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 task and mighty labor lies.)

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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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Each of us bears his own Hell.

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What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.

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...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

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the dank night is sweeping down from the skyand the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.

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The signs of the old flame, I know them well.I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me downor 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.

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..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the seaand what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...

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The seeds of life - fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies' ills or dulled by limbs and flesh that's born for death. That is the source of all men's fears and longings, joys and sorrows, nor can they see the heaven's light, shut up in the body's tomb, a prison dark and deep.

~ Virgil

They are able who think they are able.

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Fortune sides with him who dares.

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Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this.

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Time bears away all things.

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The hour is ripe and yonder lies the way.

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Knowing sorrow well I learn to succor the distressed.

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Endure and preserve yourselves for better things.

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Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

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Fear betrays unworthy souls.

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They are able because they think they are able.

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For they can conquer who believe they can.

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Love conquers all.

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As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

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

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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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To have died once is enough.

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Time passes irrevocably.

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Time flies never to be recalled.

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Time is flying never to return.

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All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

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