Quotes from Virgil

There's a snake lurking in the grass.

Omnia vincit amor" - "Love conquers all

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.

They are able who think they are able.

Time bears away all things.

Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?

The goose gabbles amid the melodious swans.

Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

Knowing sorrow well, I learn to succor the distressed.

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

Endure, and preserve yourselves for better things.

Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

They are able because they think they are able.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

He utters empty words, he utters sound without mind.

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

Each man is led by his own liking.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.