Virgil Quotes - Page 6

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

Thus shall you go to the stars.

Is it then so sad a thing to die?

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

There's a snake hidden in the grass.

It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes

We can't all do everything.

A fault is fostered by concealment.

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction

We have to thank God for this retirement.

Passion and strife bow down the mind

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell.

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.

O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.

Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.

Fear reveals baseborn souls!

The noblest motive is the public good.

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas