Virgil quotes - page 2

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. (Virgil)
Time is flying never to return. View quote
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Time passes irrevocably. View quote
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Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. View quote
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There is no salvation in war. View quote
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Is it then so sad a thing to die? View quote
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To compare great things with small. View quote
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The great line of the centuries begins anew. View quote
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Begin, baby boy, to recognize your mother with a smile. View quote
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There is no place for death. View quote
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I feel once more the scars of the old flame. (Virgil)
Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience. View quote
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If only Jupiter would give me back The past years and the man I was... View quote
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I cannot bear a mother's tears. View quote
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Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars. View quote
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To what extremes won't you compel our hearts, you accursed lust for gold? View quote
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In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom. View quote
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It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. View quote
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O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men. View quote
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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. View quote
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Trust the expert. (Virgil)
Many colors blend into one. View quote
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Rage supplies arms. View quote
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And with a groan for that indignity His spirit fled into the gloom below. View quote
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Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god? View quote
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Virgil

Virgil - Image
Photo: Armando Mancini, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: Roman Poet
Born: 70 BC
Died: 19 BC
Quotes count: 221
Wikipedia: Virgil

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