Virgil quotes - page 9

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. (Virgil)
Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes. View quote
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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. View quote
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Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed. View quote
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Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy. View quote
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From a single crime know the nation. View quote
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Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable. View quote
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How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods? View quote
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Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory. View quote
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Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere. View quote
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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God. (Virgil)
The Britons are quite separated from all the world. View quote
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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. View quote
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Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men. View quote
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The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions. View quote
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Sic itur ad astra. View quote
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Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. View quote
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Rumor grows as it goes. View quote
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Homer and Virgil! with what sacred awe, Do those mere sounds the world's attention draw! So these gigantic souls, amaz'd, we find As much above the rest of human kind. View quote
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Fidus Achates. View quote
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Consanguineus Leti Sopor. (Virgil)

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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