Virgil Quotes

They can do all because they think they can.

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Fortune sides with he who dares

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.

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

Love conquers all things.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

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

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time

Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy.

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

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

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

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

Persistent work triumphs.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

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

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

From a single crime know the nation.

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

To have died once is enough.

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.

Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall.

Fear betrays unworthy souls.

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

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

The Britons are quite separated from all the world.

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

Trust one who has gone through it.

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!

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

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

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.

Endure and save yourselves for happier times.

None but himself can be his parallel.

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

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

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

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

We are not all able to do all things.

The noblest motive is the public good.

There's a snake lurking in the grass.

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

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

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

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

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