Virgil Quotes - Page 5

And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across the lands and waters.

Who can blind lover's eyes?

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

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

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

That which an enraged woman can accomplish.

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.

The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses

Time is flying never to return.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

They are able who think they are able.

Want of pluck shows want of blood

A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.

He enters the port with a full sail.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Each draws to his best-loved.

E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.