Virgil Quotes - Page 4

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

They can conquer who believe they can.

The Britons are quite separated from all the world.

Trust the expert. -Experto credite

Trust not too much to appearances

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

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

A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.

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

Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

There's a snake lurking in the grass.

It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - -there's the rub.

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

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

Trust one who has gone through it.

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

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

Veiling truth in mystery.

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti