Quotes from Virgil

I was the first to bring the Muse into my country.

Mind moves matter.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

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.

Here, too, the honorable finds its due and there are tears for passing things; here, too, things mortal touch the mind.

Love Conquers All

Happy he who was able to know the causes of things (felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas), and who trampled beneath his feet all fears, inexorable fate, and the roar of devouring hell.

But,...we should first learn the winds and the nature of the sky, the customary cultivation and the ways of the place. What each region bears and rejects. Here corn shoots up, and there grapes do. Elsewhere young trees grow strong and the wild grasses.

Such words he utters, and sick with deep distress he feigns hope on his face, and keeps his anguish hidden deep in his breast.

Time passes irrevocably.

Et tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus...

For they conquer who believe they can.

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

Now, whoever has courage and a strong and collected spirit in his breast, let him come forward, lace on the gloves and put up his hands. (5.363-364)

My son, from whence this madness, this neglect Of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind Whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.

sic itur ad astra

All things by nature are ready to get worse

What madness destroyed me and you, Orpheus?

Nunc scio quit sit amor.

In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.

Fugit irreparabile tempus.

Arma virumque cano......... *Literally: I sing of arms and man. __I sing the praises of a man's stuggles__