quotes by Virgil
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"Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.
Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love."
— Virgil (Virgil: ECLOGUES)
Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love."
— Virgil (Virgil: ECLOGUES)
"Vera incessu patuit dea.
(The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)"
— Virgil (The Aeneid)
(The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)"
— Virgil (The Aeneid)
"I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in letters on the little trees/ The story of my love, and as the trees/ Will grow letters too will grow, to cry/ In a louder voice the story of my love."
— Virgil
— Virgil
"The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way."
— Virgil (The Aeneid)
— Virgil (The Aeneid)
"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. "
— Virgil
— Virgil
"Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)
The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all..."
— Virgil (The Aeneid)
The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all..."
— Virgil (The Aeneid)
tags:
hope
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"Arma, viri, ferte arma: vocat lux ultimos victos.
Reddite me Danais; sinite instaurata revisam
proelia. Numquam omnes hodie moriemur inulti."
— Virgil
Reddite me Danais; sinite instaurata revisam
proelia. Numquam omnes hodie moriemur inulti."
— Virgil
tags:
elegance
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"Duty bound, Aeneas, though he struggled with desire to calm and comfort her in all her pain, to speak to her and turn her mind from grief, and though he sighed his heart out, shaken still with love if her, yet took the course heaven gave him and turned back to the fleet. "
— Virgil (The Aeneid)
— Virgil (The Aeneid)
"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..."
— Virgil
— Virgil
tags:
aeneid
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"Facilis descensus Averni:
noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras.
hoc opus, hic labor est."
— Virgil (The Aeneid)
noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras.
hoc opus, hic labor est."
— Virgil (The Aeneid)
"Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate."
— Virgil
— Virgil

