Virgil Quotes (130 Quotes)



    The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.



    Will Mars be always in your windy tongue and in your flying feet?



    Duty bound, Aeneas, though he struggled with desire to calm and comfort her in all her pain, to speak to her and turn her mind from grief, and though he sighed his heart out, shaken still with love if her, yet took the course heaven gave him and turned back to the fleet.

    The goddess was discovered by her gait.

    Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.

    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.

    Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

    They succeed, because they think they can.

    Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

    To whisper insidious accusations in the ear of the mob.

    As the twig is bent the tree inclines.


    They can because they think they can.

    Age steals away all things, even the mind.

    Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality.

    Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime - turn then your sword on me.

    Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

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

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

    Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor

    Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

    The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.

    You ought to be able to state your plan in a few succinct sentences, ... Chief executives see these things as a test of their knowledge. Knowledge is essential, but it's the ability to communicate this knowledge that separates the winners from the losers.

    We can't raise our prices because we would lose our customers, ... Our prices have stayed the same, but the gas has doubled in price. If we starve to death, who will care

    Fear is proof of a low born soul.

    Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

    Veiling truth in mystery.

    Even virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person

    Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

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

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

    Fury itself supplies arms.

    Fortune favours the bold.

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

    Rumor grows as it goes.

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

    Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.

    Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

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

    Fate will find a way.

    Fame hides her head among the clouds.

    From one learn all.

    They are able because they think they are able.

    Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

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

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


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