Quotes from Virgil

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

Facilis descensus Averno: Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; Sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. (The gates of Hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this task and mighty labor lies.)

Trust one who has gone through it.

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...

Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?

But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...] His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling-- no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.

Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.

Facilis descensus Averni.

Death's brother, sleep.

I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in letters on the little trees/ The story of my love, and as the trees/ Will grow letters too will grow, to cry/ In a louder voice the story of my love.

Vera incessu patuit dea. (The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)

They can do all because they think they can.

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

Fortune helps the brave.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.

Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.

Fear betrays unworthy souls.

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.