Quotes from Virgil

dux femina facti ; a  woman was the author of the achievement.

Do you believe this is what the dead care about when they are buried in the grave?

Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.

See who I am, whose great age, exhausted and decayed and past the fertile time for truth, deludes me with imaginary dread when I prophesy of warring kings! Look now at this. I come from the Dread Sisters' station; and in my hand I bear war and death.

Love cares for no one. The bees never seem to have enough of clover, The goats never seem to have enough of leaves, The meadows never enough of freshening water; Love never seems to have enough of tears.

Incepto Ne Desistam!

We make our destiny by our choice of the gods.

In human affairs there is no room for certainty

numero deus impare gaudet.

Can anger so fierce stir the hearts of the dwellers in heaven?

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas,               atque metus omnis et inexorabile fatum subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis auari. Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas,               atque metus omnis et inexorabile fatum subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis auari. (on Lucretius)

Who now in her fear troubles earth and the sea and the sky

ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram, perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna: quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra Iuppiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.'' - Virgil, Aenid Liber VI, 268-272.

Being myself no stranger to grief, I am learning to help the unhappy

if so great be thy yearning to know of our sorrows

her fire whose flame never dies

Quisque suos patimur manes.

The friend of her heart

Quienes pueden, pueden porque piensan que pueden.

a heart that is maddened with love

she takes no rest from revenge

pledge of a love that were better unnamed

mighty in heaven and hell

dreams that but lie