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Virgil Quotes

A fault is fostered by concealment.
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A feeble dart short of its mark.
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A fickle and capricious woman.
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A precious pair of scamps.
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A woman the leader of the enterprise.
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Age carries all things away, even the mind.
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Alas! it is not well for anyone to be confident when the gods are adverse.
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All of which misery I saw, part of which I was.
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All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
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All things deteriorate in time.
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And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle.
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As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
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Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
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But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
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Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
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Cares deny all rest to weary limbs.
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Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
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Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
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Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.
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Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.
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Each of us bears his own Hell.
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Endure the present, and watch for better things.
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Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
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Every man makes a god of his own desire.
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Every sound alarms.
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Fate will find a way.
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Fortune favours the bold.
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Fortune favours the daring.
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Fortune helps the bold.
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From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
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From one learn all.
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Fury itself supplies arms.
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Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.
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Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
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Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only knew the pleasures which surround you!
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He enters the port with a full sail.
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He follows his father with unequal steps.
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He follows his father, but with shorter strides.
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He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
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He subdues their rising passion and soothes their anger by soft remonstrance.
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He talks nonsense.
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Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood.
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Here I am who did the deed.
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Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime - turn then your sword on me.
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His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
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His sickness increases from the remedies applied to cure it.
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Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
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I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
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I shudder when relating it.
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I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.
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If I can not influence the gods, I shall move all hell.
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If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
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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.
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Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
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In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
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In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
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It is then so sad a thing to die.
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Learn now of the treachery of the Greeks, and from one example the character of the nation may be known.
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Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
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Love conquers all.
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Mind moves matter.
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Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a chief part.
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Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
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None but himself can be his parallel.
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Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.
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O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed!
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Of such importance is early training.
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Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!
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One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
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Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief.
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Passion and strife bow down the mind.
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Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
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Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
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Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.
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Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.
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She acquires momentum as she advances.
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She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
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Tears are due to human misery, and human sufferings touch the mind.
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The accursed hunger for gold.
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The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
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The goddess was discovered by her gait.
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The medicine increases the disease.
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The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
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The rude rabble are enraged; now firebrands and stones fly.
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The spirit within nourishes, and mind instilled throughout the living parts activates the whole mass and mingles with the vast frame.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict.
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Their rage supplies them with weapons.
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There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
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They appear but here and there swimming in the vasty deep.
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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence.
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They can conquer who believe they can.
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They succeed, because they think they can.
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This is no time for staring about.
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Thus shall you go to the stars.
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Time flies never to be recalled.
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Time is flying never to return.
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Time passes irrevocably.
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To have died once is enough.
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To prate of peace, and arm your ironsides.
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To spare the vanquished, and subdue the proud.
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To whisper insidious accusations in the ear of the mob.
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Trust not to much to appearances.
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Veiling truth in mystery.
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Want of pluck shows want of blood.
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We can't all do everything.
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We have to thank God for this retirement.
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We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.
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What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
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What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
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What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so presumptuous?
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Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger, one safety.
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When I saw her I as undone.
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Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
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Whither art thou rushing to destruction?
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Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
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Who can blind lover's eyes?
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Who could tell such a story with dry eyes?
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Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
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