Virgil Quotes (130 Quotes)


    None but himself can be his parallel.

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

    We can't all do everything.

    Every man makes a god of his own desire.

    If I can not influence the gods, I shall move all hell.


    Love conquers all things let us too surrender to Love.

    Each of us bears his own Hell.

    In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.

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

    Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

    Press no further with hate.

    There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

    They can conquer who believe they can.

    It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

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

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

    All things deteriorate in time.

    Time passes irrevocably.

    But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

    Time is flying never to return.

    They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence.

    At last I know what love is really like.

    Believe one who has tried it.

    There's a snake lurking in the grass.

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

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


    One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.

    We're going full speed ahead, ... You can't start doing something until you have your antennas up.

    Age carries all things away, even the mind.

    Passion and strife bow down the mind.

    Want of pluck shows want of blood.

    What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

    From a single crime know the nation.

    Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

    Trust not to much to appearances.

    I shudder when relating it.

    The medicine increases the disease.

    Time bears away all things, even the mind.

    Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

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

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

    Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

    The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

    Time flies never to be recalled.

    Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

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

    Love conquers all let us surrender to Love.

    Endure the present, and watch for better things.

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


    Related Authors


    T. S. Eliot - Robert Frost - Lord Byron - Thomas Moore - Thomas Gray - Omar Khayyam - Novalis - Geoffrey Chaucer - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Aristophanes


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