Virgil

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If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.
- Virgil
Collection: Moving
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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.
- Virgil
Collection: God
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Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
- Virgil
Collection: Joy
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Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
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Collection: Philosophical
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The Britons are quite separated from all the world.
- Virgil
Collection: World
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A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.
- Virgil
Collection: Crowns
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Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.
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Collection: Love
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These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.
- Virgil
Collection: Death
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Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.
- Virgil
Collection: Adversity
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Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.
- Virgil
Collection: Angel
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In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.
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Collection: Age
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Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
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Collection: Philosophical
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Their rage supplies them with weapons.
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Collection: Philosophical
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Trust one who has gone through it.
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Collection: Gone
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The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti
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Collection: Leadership
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What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
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Collection: Philosophical
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Look with favor upon a bold beginning.
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Collection: Inspirational
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The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.
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Collection: Opposites
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We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it.
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Collection: Endurance
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Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men
- Virgil
Collection: Pain
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That which an enraged woman can accomplish.
- Virgil
Collection: Anger
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Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses
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Collection: Philosophy
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Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
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Collection: Trust
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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.
- Virgil
Collection: Air
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If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.
- Virgil
Collection: Latin
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What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.
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Collection: Latin
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Who can blind lover's eyes?
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Collection: Philosophical
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In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.
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Collection: Heart
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Thus shall you go to the stars.
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Collection: Stars
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Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
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Collection: Courage
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E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.
- Virgil
Collection: War
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Is it then so sad a thing to die?
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Collection: Death
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There's a snake hidden in the grass.
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Collection: Snakes
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There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
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Collection: Philosophical
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It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.
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Collection: Wind
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A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.
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Collection: Women
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If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
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Collection: Philosophical
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A fault is fostered by concealment.
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Collection: Philosophical
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Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction
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Collection: Sympathy
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We have to thank God for this retirement.
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Collection: Retirement
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Then endure for a while, and live for a happier day!
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Collection: Endure
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There's a snake lurking in the grass.
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Collection: Philosophical
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Passion and strife bow down the mind
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Collection: Passion
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Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps, and come back out into the brightness above, that is the work, that is the labor.
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Collection: Night
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People are able because they think they're able
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Collection: Inspirational
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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
- Virgil
Collection: Philosophical
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I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.
- Virgil
Collection: Inspiration
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Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.
- Virgil
Collection: Philosophical