Virgil

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Fate will find a way.
- Virgil
Collection: Philosophical
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Persistent work triumphs.
- Virgil
Collection: Inspirational
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Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.
- Virgil
Collection: Endurance
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Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!
- Virgil
Collection: Fashion
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Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
- Virgil
Collection: Prayer
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Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
- Virgil
Collection: Philosophical
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Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall.
- Virgil
Collection: Philosophical
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Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
- Virgil
Collection: Integrity
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Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.
- Virgil
Collection: Philosophical
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He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
- Virgil
Collection: Philosophical
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Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
- Virgil
Collection: Latin
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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, the task and mighty labor lies.
- Virgil
Collection: Lying
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The accursed hunger for gold.
- Virgil
Collection: Gold
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The greatest health is wealth.
- Virgil
Collection: Wealth
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Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
- Virgil
Collection: Learning
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Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.
- Virgil
Collection: Happiness
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A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)
- Virgil
Collection: Fickle
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Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
- Virgil
Collection: Anger
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Fear betrays unworthy souls.
- Virgil
Collection: Fear
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That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.
- Virgil
Collection: Loyalty
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From a single crime know the nation.
- Virgil
Collection: Crime
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Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
- Virgil
Collection: Nature
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We are not all able to do all things.
- Virgil
Collection: Able
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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.
- Virgil
Collection: Song
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Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.
- Virgil
Collection: Love
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The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
- Virgil
Collection: Safety
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Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy.
- Virgil
Collection: Hell
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None but himself can be his parallel.
- Virgil
Collection: Philosophical
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Endure and save yourselves for happier times.
- Virgil
Collection: Endurance
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All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . . . In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.
- Virgil
Collection: Life
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How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?
- Virgil
Collection: Latin
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Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
- Virgil
Collection: Confidence
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The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.
- Virgil
Collection: Fear
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Each man is led by his own liking.
- Virgil
Collection: Wisdom
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Trust the expert. -Experto credite
- Virgil
Collection: Trust
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Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.
- Virgil
Collection: Kingdoms
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O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
- Virgil
Collection: Philosophical
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Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
- Virgil
Collection: Philosophical
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They are able who think they are able.
- Virgil
Collection: Thinking
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If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell.
- Virgil
Collection: Moving
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Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.
- Virgil
Collection: Math
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Want of pluck shows want of blood
- Virgil
Collection: Blood
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He enters the port with a full sail.
- Virgil
Collection: Inspirational
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Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes
- Virgil
Collection: Learning
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If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
- Virgil
Collection: Race
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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.
- Virgil
Collection: Love
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Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched
- Virgil
Collection: Wretched