Quotes from Virgil

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

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time

Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

Who can blind lover's eyes?

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

A fault is fostered by concealment.

They can conquer who believe they can.

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.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

Time passes irrevocably.

All things deteriorate in time.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.