Virgil Quotes

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

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  Patience, Determination, Philosophical

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• If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

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  Moving, Heaven, Hell

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• Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.

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  Sweet, Dark, Night

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• Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

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  Broken Heart, Wise, Breakup

  'Aeneid' bk. 1, l. 203

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• Fortune sides with he who dares

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  Sides, Fortune, Dare

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• Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

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  Evil, Grows, Concealment

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• No day shall erase you from the memory of time

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  Memories, September 11, Paganism

  Virgil, Barry Moser, Allen Mandelbaum (2007). “The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation”, p.239, Univ of California Press

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• They can do all because they think they can.

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  Confidence, Thinking, Can Do

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• Endure the present, and watch for better things.

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  Watches, Endure

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

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  Latin, Philosophical, Men

  Virgil (1852). “The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Metrical Index”, p.336

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• Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

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  Music, Optimism, Singing

  "Eclogues (Book IX)". Book by Virgil, 37 BC.

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• Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.

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  Fear, Mind, Degenerates

  "Aeneid" by Virgil, Book IV, 29-19 BC.

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• Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.

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  Love Conquers All, Conquer, Submit

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• The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

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  Determination, Lying, Way

  Virgil (1910). “The Æneid of Virgil”, London, J. M. Dent & Company; New York, E. P. Dutton & Company [1907]

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• Love conquers all things.

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  Love, Inspirational, Valentine

  Eclogues no. 10, l. 69

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

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  Philosophical, Men, Ruins

  "Aeneis (Aeneid)". Poem by Virgil (Book II, line 130), 29-19 BC.

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• Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps, and come back out into the brightness above, that is the work, that is the labor.

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  Night, Doors, Political

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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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  Fate, Mind, Causes

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• Each of us bears his own Hell.

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  Reality, Bears, Hell

  "Aeneid" by Virgil, Book VI, (Line 743), 29 - 19 BC.

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• The medicine increases the disease.

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  Philosophical, Medicine, Disease

  "Aeneis (Aeneid)". Poem by Virgil (Book XII, line 46), 29-19 BC.

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• I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

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  Inspiration, Flames, Sparks

  Virgil (1930). “Virgil”

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• Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Adversity

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

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  Philosophical, Love Is, Knows

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• Time bears away all things.

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  Time, Bears, All Things

  Virgil (1924). “The Eclogues & Georgics of Virgil”

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

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  Philosophical, Helping, Unfortunate

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