Virgil Quotes

A fault is fostered by concealment.
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A feeble dart short of its mark.
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A fickle and capricious woman.
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A precious pair of scamps.
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A woman the leader of the enterprise.
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Age carries all things away, even the mind.
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Alas! it is not well for anyone to be confident when the gods are adverse.
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All of which misery I saw, part of which I was.
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All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
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All things deteriorate in time.
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And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle.
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As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
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Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
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But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
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Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
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Cares deny all rest to weary limbs.
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Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
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Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
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Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.
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Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.
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Each of us bears his own Hell.
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Endure the present, and watch for better things.
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Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
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Every man makes a god of his own desire.
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Every sound alarms.
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Fate will find a way.
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Fortune favours the bold.
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Fortune favours the daring.
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Fortune helps the bold.
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From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
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From one learn all.
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Fury itself supplies arms.
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Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.
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Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
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Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only knew the pleasures which surround you!
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He enters the port with a full sail.
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He follows his father with unequal steps.
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He follows his father, but with shorter strides.
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He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
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He subdues their rising passion and soothes their anger by soft remonstrance.
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He talks nonsense.
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Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood.
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Here I am who did the deed.
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Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime - turn then your sword on me.
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His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
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His sickness increases from the remedies applied to cure it.
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Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
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I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
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