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

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  Love Conquers All, Conquer, Submit

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

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  Moving, Heaven, Hell

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• Fortune sides with he who dares

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  Sides, Fortune, Dare

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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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• Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

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  Evil, Grows, Concealment

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

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  Faith, Inspiration, Adversity

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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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• Endure the present, and watch for better things.

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  Watches, Endure

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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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• 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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• 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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• Every man makes a god of his own desire

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  Men, Desire, Every Man

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• The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

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  Fear, Wind, Tree

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• All things deteriorate in time.

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  Philosophical, Aggravation, All Things

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• Fate will find a way.

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  Philosophical, Fate, Way

  Virgil, Levi Robert Lind (1963). “The Aeneid: An Epic Poem of Rome”, p.55, Indiana University Press

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

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  Prayer, Philosophical, Thinking

  "Aeneid" by Virgil, Book VI, (Line 376), 29 - 19 BC.

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

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  Safety

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

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• Persistent work triumphs.

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  Inspirational, Triumph, Persistent

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• The greatest health is wealth.

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  Wealth, Health Is Wealth

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