Virgil Quotes - Page 2

Persistent work triumphs.

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.

People are able because they think they're able

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

Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall.

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

Fate will find a way.

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

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

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

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

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

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

Age steals away all things, even the 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!

All things deteriorate in time.

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

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

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

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.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

To have died once is enough.

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