Virgil Quotes

Veiling truth in mystery.

Every man makes a god of his own desire

Each man is led by his own liking.

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

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses

Passion and strife bow down the mind

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.

Then endure for a while, and live for a happier day!

Want of pluck shows want of blood

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.

I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

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

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

Trust not too much to appearances

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

Is it then so sad a thing to die?

A fault is fostered by concealment.

The progress in Iraq has not been without cost.

They are able who think they are able.

Time bears away all things.

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.

Time is flying never to return.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Fate will find a way.

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

Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

The accursed hunger for gold.

The medicine increases the disease.

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

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

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.

Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.

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.

How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?

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

That which an enraged woman can accomplish.

Who can blind lover's eyes?

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

There's a snake hidden in the grass.

Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.