Top quotes by 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. Votes: 17

Time passes irrevocably. Votes: 10

Love conquers all things. Votes: 8

Age carries all things away, even the mind. Votes: 7

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. Votes: 7

Fate will find a way. Votes: 7

Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love. Votes: 7

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships. Votes: 7

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong. Votes: 6

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts! Votes: 6

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories. Votes: 6

Trust not too much to appearances. Votes: 6

Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is. Votes: 6

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person. Votes: 6

Time is flying never to return. Votes: 5

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. Votes: 5

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety. Votes: 5

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all. Votes: 5

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

Endure and save yourselves for happier times. Votes: 5

Every man makes a god of his own desire. Votes: 4

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground. Votes: 2

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger. Votes: 2

Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love. Votes: 2

They are able who think they are able. Votes: 1

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love. Votes: 0

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused Votes: 0

Fear is proof of a low born soul Votes: 0

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead. Votes: 0

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? Votes: 0

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy. Votes: 0

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? Votes: 0

Age steals away all things, even the mind. Votes: 0

Fortune sides with him who dares. Votes: 0

Hug the shore; let others try the deep. Votes: 0

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. Votes: 0

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things. Votes: 0

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another. Votes: 0

I shudder when relating it. Votes: 0

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts. Votes: 0

Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes Votes: 0

Want of pluck shows want of blood. Votes: 0

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. Votes: 0

Every sound alarms. Votes: 0

All things deteriorate in time. Votes: 0

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched. Votes: 0

As the twig is bent the tree inclines. Votes: 0

Endure the present, and watch for better things. Votes: 0

Fortune favours the bold. Votes: 0

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. Votes: 0

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? Votes: 0

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. Votes: 0

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. Votes: 0

There's a snake lurking in the grass. Votes: 0

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained. Votes: 0

A fault is fostered by concealment. Votes: 0

They can conquer who believe they can. Votes: 0

Love conquers all. Votes: 0

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. Votes: 0

Your descendants shall gather your fruits. Votes: 0

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth. Votes: 0

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow. Votes: 0

Time flies never to be recalled. Votes: 0

Fury itself supplies arms. Votes: 0

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. Votes: 0

From one learn all. Votes: 0

To have died once is enough. Votes: 0

A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor. Votes: 0

A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever. Votes: 0

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.) Votes: 0

All our sweetest hours fly fastest. Votes: 0

Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth. Votes: 0

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched Votes: 0

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, Votes: 0

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers. Votes: 0

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses Votes: 0

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. Votes: 0

Each draws to his best-loved. Votes: 0

Each man is led by his own liking. Votes: 0

Each of us bears his own Hell. Votes: 0

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness. Votes: 0

Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable. Votes: 0

Even virtue is fairer in a fair body. Votes: 0

Every man makes a god of his own desire Votes: 0

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. Votes: 0

Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy. Votes: 0

Fear betrays unworthy souls. Votes: 0

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind. Votes: 0

Fear reveals baseborn souls! Votes: 0

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate. Votes: 0

Fortune sides with he who dares Votes: 0

From a single crime know the nation. Votes: 0

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere. Votes: 0

He enters the port with a full sail. Votes: 0

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas Votes: 0

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame. Votes: 0

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell. Votes: 0

If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell Votes: 0

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell. Votes: 0

If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years. Votes: 0

Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose. Votes: 0

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth. Votes: 0

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom. Votes: 0

Is it then so sad a thing to die? Votes: 0

Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods? Votes: 0

It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub... Votes: 0

It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies. Votes: 0

Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes Votes: 0

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. Votes: 0

Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next. Votes: 0

Look with favor upon a bold beginning. Votes: 0

Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces Votes: 0

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland. Votes: 0

No day shall erase you from the memory of time Votes: 0

None but himself can be his parallel. Votes: 0

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction Votes: 0

O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Passion and strife bow down the mind Votes: 0

People are able because they think they're able Votes: 0

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances. Votes: 0

Persistent work triumphs. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds. Votes: 0

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire. Votes: 0

Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy. Votes: 0

Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory. Votes: 0

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. Votes: 0

That which an enraged woman can accomplish. Votes: 0

The accursed hunger for gold. Votes: 0

The Britons are quite separated from all the world. Votes: 0

The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames Votes: 0

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The greatest health is wealth. Votes: 0

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way. Votes: 0

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti Votes: 0

The medicine increases the disease. Votes: 0

The noblest motive is the public good. Votes: 0

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety. Votes: 0

The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions. Votes: 0

Their rage supplies them with weapons. Votes: 0

Then endure for a while, and live for a happier day! Votes: 0

There's a snake hidden in the grass. Votes: 0

These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust. Votes: 0

They can conquer who belive they can. Votes: 0

They can do all because they think they can. Votes: 0

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men Votes: 0

Thus shall you go to the stars. Votes: 0

Time bears away all things. Votes: 0

Trust not too much to appearances Votes: 0

Trust one who has gone through it. Votes: 0

Trust one who has tried. Votes: 0

Trust the expert. -Experto credite Votes: 0

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all... Votes: 0

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight. Votes: 0

Veiling truth in mystery. Votes: 0

Want of pluck shows want of blood Votes: 0

We are not all able to do all things. Votes: 0

We can't all do everything. Votes: 0

We have to thank God for this retirement. Votes: 0

We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it. Votes: 0

What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race. Votes: 0

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another. Votes: 0

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it. Votes: 0

Who can blind lover's eyes? Votes: 0

Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing. Votes: 0

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly. Votes: 0

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. Votes: 0

Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely. Votes: 0

You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento Votes: 0