Virgil Quotes

I shudder when relating it.
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I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.
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If I can not influence the gods, I shall move all hell.
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If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
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If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
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Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
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In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
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In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
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It is then so sad a thing to die.
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Learn now of the treachery of the Greeks, and from one example the character of the nation may be known.
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Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
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Love conquers all.
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Mind moves matter.
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Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a chief part.
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Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
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None but himself can be his parallel.
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Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.
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O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed!
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Of such importance is early training.
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Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!
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One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
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Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief.
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Passion and strife bow down the mind.
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Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
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Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
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Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.
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Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.
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She acquires momentum as she advances.
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She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
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Tears are due to human misery, and human sufferings touch the mind.
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The accursed hunger for gold.
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The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
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The goddess was discovered by her gait.
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The medicine increases the disease.
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The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
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The spirit within nourishes, and mind instilled throughout the living parts activates the whole mass and mingles with the vast frame.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict.
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Their rage supplies them with weapons.
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There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
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They appear but here and there swimming in the vasty deep.
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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence.
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They can conquer who believe they can.
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They succeed, because they think they can.
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This is no time for staring about.
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Thus shall you go to the stars.
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Time flies never to be recalled.
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Time is flying never to return.
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Time passes irrevocably.
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To have died once is enough.
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To spare the vanquished, and subdue the proud.
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To whisper insidious accusations in the ear of the mob.
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Trust not to much to appearances.
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Veiling truth in mystery.
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Want of pluck shows want of blood.
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We can't all do everything.
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We have to thank God for this retirement.
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We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.
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What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
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What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
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What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so presumptuous?
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Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger, one safety.
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When I saw her I as undone.
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Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
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Whither art thou rushing to destruction?
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Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
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Who can blind lover's eyes?
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Who could tell such a story with dry eyes?
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Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
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