Virgil Quotes (130 Quotes)

O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed

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

I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

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

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

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Here's Death twitching my ear Live, says he, for I'm coming

To have died once is enough.

The Britons are quite separated from all the world.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Trust one who has tried.

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.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

He enters the port with a full sail.

Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.

Death twitches my ear. ''Live,'' he says, ''I am coming.''

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

Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Every sound alarms.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

Each man has his appointed day short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief.

A fault is fostered by concealment.

You have endured worse things God will grant an end even to these.

Who can blind lover's eyes?

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.