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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
“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
“The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid
― 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
“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
“Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ”
― Virgil
― Virgil
“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”
― Virgil, Virgil: Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid I-VI
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”
― Virgil, Virgil: Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid I-VI
“Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”
― Virgil
― Virgil
“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
“A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)”
― Virgil, The Aeneid
― Virgil, The Aeneid
“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
“But,...we should first learn the winds and the nature of the sky, the customary cultivation and the ways of the place. What each region bears and rejects. Here corn shoots up, and there grapes do. Elsewhere young trees grow strong and the wild grasses.”
― Virgil
― Virgil
“No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.”
― Virgil
― Virgil
“Friend, have the courage
To care little for wealth, and shape yourself,
You too, to merit godhead.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid
To care little for wealth, and shape yourself,
You too, to merit godhead.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid
