Quotes from Virgil

Every sound alarms.

Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron.

Rumor grows as it goes.

Praise a large domain, cultivate a small estate.

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.

The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town.

How happy those whose walls already rise!

Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says; "I am coming."

They can do all because they think they can.

Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it.

As long as rivers shall run down to the sea, or shadows touch the mountain slopes, or stars graze in the vault of heaven, so long shall your honor, your name, your praises endure.

If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

We are not all capable of everything.

From a single crime know the nation.

Time bears away all things, even our minds.

Had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron and a chest of brass, I could not tell all the forms of crime, could not name all the types of punishment.

Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire.