Virgil famous quotes

They can do all because they think they can.
-- Virgil

#Confidence #Thinking

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction
-- Virgil

#Sympathy #Suffering #Affliction

If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.
-- Virgil

#Latin #Years #Jupiter

What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.
-- Virgil

#Latin #Race #Found

Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods?
-- Virgil

#Latin #Mind

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!
-- Virgil

#Fashion #Art #Stars

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

#Patience #Determination #Philosophical

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
-- Virgil

#Moving #Heaven #Hell

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

#Broken Heart #Wise #Breakup

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.
-- Virgil

#Sweet #Dark #Night

Fortune sides with he who dares
-- Virgil

#Sides #Fortune #Dare

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
-- Virgil

#Fear #Mind #Degenerates

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
-- Virgil

#Evil #Grows #Concealment

Endure the present, and watch for better things.
-- Virgil

#Watches #Endure

No day shall erase you from the memory of time
-- Virgil

#Memories #September 11 #Paganism

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

#Music #Optimism #Singing

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

#Philosophical #Men #Ruins

Love conquers all things.
-- Virgil

#Love #Inspirational #Valentine

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

#Latin #Philosophical #Men

Each of us bears his own Hell.
-- Virgil

#Reality #Bears #Hell

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.
-- Virgil

#Determination #Lying #Way

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

#Fate #Mind #Causes

Every man makes a god of his own desire
-- Virgil

#Men #Desire #Every Man

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.
-- Virgil

#Night #Doors #Political

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.
-- Virgil

#Endurance #Endure

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

#Philosophical #Helping #Unfortunate

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

#Love Conquers All #Conquer #Submit

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

#Faith #Inspiration #Adversity

The accursed hunger for gold.
-- Virgil

#Gold #Hunger