Virgil

Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He wrote three of the most famous poems in Latin literature, the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. 

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Trust not too much to appearances.

I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

Trust one who has tried.

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps and reach the air above, there's the rub.

Fury itself supplies arms.

From one learn all.

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

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

The medicine increases the disease.

Love conquers all.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

It is easy to go down into Hell, night and day the gates of dark Death stand wide, but to climb back again to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub the task.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

They are able because they think they are able.

I shudder when relating it.

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

Myself acquainted with misfortune I learn to help the unfortunate.

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

Who can blind lover's eyes?

Fate will find a way.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Consider what each soil will bear and what each refuses.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

To have died once is enough.

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

Time flies never to be recalled.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Veiling truth in mystery.

Every sound alarms.

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

A fault is fostered by concealment.

Time is flying never to return.

Time passes irrevocably.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

He enters the port with a full sail.

We can't all do everything.

All things deteriorate in time.

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

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.

There's a snake lurking in the grass.

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

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

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

Age steals away all things even the mind.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

If one swain scorns you you will soon find another.

They succeed because they think they can.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

Come what may all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

But meanwhile time flies, it flies never to be regained.

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

Age carries all things away even the mind.

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

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

One man excels in eloquence another in arms.

What each man feared would happen to himself did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

Fortune favours the bold.

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

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

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

They can because they think they can.

Want of pluck shows want of blood.

Endure the present and watch for better things.

Mind moves matter.

None but himself can be his parallel.

Yield not to calamity but face her boldly.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

Hug the shore, let others try the deep.

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

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

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