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• I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

  Virgil

  Inspiration, Flames, Sparks

  Virgil (1930). “Virgil”

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• If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

  Virgil

  Moving, Heaven, Hell

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

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• Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

  Virgil

  God, Passion, Terrible

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• That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.

  Virgil

  Loyalty, Men, Motive

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• 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

  Peace, War, Skills

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• A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)

  Virgil

  Fickle, Objects

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• 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

  Happiness, Fate, Feet

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• Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

  Virgil

  Determination, Philosophical, Endurance

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• Endure and save yourselves for happier times.

  Virgil

  Endurance, Endure, Happier Times

  Virgil, Stanley Lombardo (2005). “Aeneid”, p.8, Hackett Publishing

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• He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Rocks, Sea

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• 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

  Fashion, Art, Stars

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• All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . . . In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.

  Virgil

  Life, Years, Rivers

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• The accursed hunger for gold.

  Virgil

  Gold, Hunger

  Virgil (1993). “Vergilius”

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• Fear betrays unworthy souls.

  Virgil

  Fear, Soul, Betray

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• Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.

  Virgil

  Love, Amor, Quitting

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• We are not all able to do all things.

  Virgil

  Able, Ability, All Things

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• Trust one who has tried.

  Virgil

  Trust, Philosophical

  Virgil (1871). “Virgil in English Rhythm: With Illustrations from the British Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper”, p.294

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• Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.

  Virgil

  Anger, Purpose, Rage

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• Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

  Virgil

  Kindness, Overcoming, May

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• How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?

  Virgil

  Latin, Mind

  "The Aeneid".

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• 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.

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  Song, Voice, Tree

  Virgil (2015). “The Eclogues of Virgil”, p.53, Macmillan

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• Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Winning, Victory

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• Trust the expert. -Experto credite

  Virgil

  Trust, Experts

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• These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

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  Death, Passion, Dust

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• None but himself can be his parallel.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Parallels

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