Quotes from Virgil

Mind moves matter.

Veiling truth in mystery.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

the dewy night unrolls a heaven thickly jewelled with sparkling stars

Omnia vincit amor - Love conquers all

Time is flying never to return.

The noblest motive is the public good.

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito

They are able who think they are able.

Optima dies...prima fugit (The best days are the first to flee)

Friend, have the courage To care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead.

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)

Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant.

What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love? The flame keeps gnawing into her tender marrow hour by hour, and deep in her heart the silent wound lives on.

I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.

the dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.

Facilis descensus Averni: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras. hoc opus, hic labor est.

No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.