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Quotes from Virgil

Lat., Now I know what love is.
~ Virgil
Latet anguis in herba. (There's a snake hidden in the grass)
~ Virgil
Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.
~ Virgil
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises. Easy is the descent to hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work; that is labor.
~ Virgil
Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
~ Virgil
Possunt quia posse videntur. (They can because they think they can)
~ Virgil
Press no further with hate.
~ Virgil
Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.
~ Virgil
The descent to hell is easy, the black gates stand open night and day, but to climb back up again to retrace ones steps to the upper air there in lies the laborious task, the toil.
~ Virgil
The gates of hell are open, night and day; smooth the descent, and easy the way.
~ Virgil
They are able because they think they are able.
~ Virgil
Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.
~ Virgil
Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
~ Virgil
Fortune sides with him who dares.
~ Virgil
Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
~ Virgil
Death twitches my ear; 'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.
~ Virgil
The descent into Hell is easy
~ Virgil
Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
~ Virgil
If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
~ Virgil
forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day
~ Virgil
No day shall erase you from the memory of time
~ Virgil
Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?
~ Virgil
They can because they think they can.
~ Virgil
Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men
~ Virgil