Virgil quotes

c 70 - 19 BC Roman Poet

Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.
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Fate

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.
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Empire

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
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Fate

Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?
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Defeat

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
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Character

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.
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Change

From a single crime know the nation.
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Crime and Criminals

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.
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Defense

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.
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Hell

Rumor grows as it goes.
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Gossip

Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.
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Fame

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
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Evil

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
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Fear

Fear is proof of a low born soul.
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Fear

Fame hides her head among the clouds.
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Fame

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.
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Giving

Fortune favors the brave.
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Fortune

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.
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God

Fortune sides with him who dares.
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Fortune

Press no further with hate.
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Hatred

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
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Gold

As a twig is bent the tree inclines.
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Habit

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.
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Hope

Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
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Memory

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.
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Love

Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
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Learning

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.
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Pleasure

Mind moves matter.
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Mind

The Britons are quite separated from all the world.
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Nationalities and Nationalism

Trust one who has tried.
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Trust

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

The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.
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Unity

I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.
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Ambition

Trust not too much to an enchanting face.
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Beauty

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
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Adversity

They are able because they think they are able.
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Ability

They can because they think they can.
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Belief

Age carries all things away, even the mind.
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Age and Aging

Trust not to much to appearances.
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Appearance

I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.
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Death and Dying

Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming.
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Death and Dying

Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality.
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Valor

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

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