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#1

“Look with favour upon a bold beginning.”
― Virgil

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#2

“Vera incessu patuit dea.
(The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

tags: classics, epic-poetry

60 likes

#3

“Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ”
― Virgil

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#4

“Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

tags: classical-texts, dido, heartbreak, love, paintings, the-aeneid

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#5

“Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”
― Virgil

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#6

“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

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#7

“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love,
hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,
consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...]
His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling--
no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

tags: aeneas, greek, myth, mythology, the-aeneid, trojan, troy, virgil

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#8

“Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.”
― Virgil

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#9

“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.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

tags: hell, poetry

231 likes

#10

“Facilis descensus Averni.”
― Virgil

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#11

“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.”
― Virgil

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#12

“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

tags: aeneid

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#13

“Each of us bears his own Hell.”
― Virgil

tags: hell, virgil

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#14

“Trust one who has gone through it.”
― Virgil

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#15

“...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

tags: aeneid, greek, greek-mythology, mythology

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#16

“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

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#17

“Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

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#18

“Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)
The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

tags: hope

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#19

“They can because they think they can.”
― Virgil

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#20

“The greatest wealth is health”
― Virgil

tags: life

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#21

“The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.”
― Publius Vergilius Maro, The Aeneid

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#22

“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”
― Virgil, Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6

tags: 4-203, forsan, meminisse, optimism, perhaps, poetry

167 likes

#23

“No day shall erase you from the memory of time”
― Virgil

tags: 9-11-memorial, lonely, sad

169 likes

#24

“Let me rage before I die.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

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#25

“If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
― Virgil

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#26

“Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.
Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.”
― Virgil, Eclogues

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#27

“The descent into Hell is easy”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

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#28

“Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.”
― Virgil

tags: carpe-diem, creepy, death, death-and-dying, inspirational, living, philosophical, philosophy, seize-the-day

353 likes

#29

“Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”
― Virgil

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#30

“Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

tags: aeneid, book-vii, line-312

916 likes

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