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Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, was a Roman poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic.
Also known as: Bucolics, Publius Vergilius Maro, Publius Virgilius Maro, Vergil, Vergilius, Virgilio
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Roman, remember by your strength to rule
Aeneid (-19)
If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
The mind of man is ignorant of fate and future destiny, and can not keep within due bounds when elated by prosperity.
Tears are due to human misery, and human sufferings touch the mind.
Now, Aeneas, is the hour for courage, now for a dauntless heart!
Aeneid (-19)
But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
They who bettered life on earth by new-found mastery.
Aeneid (-19)
The only hope for the doomed is no hope at all.
Aeneid (-19)
Rumor, swiftest of all the evils in the world.
Aeneid (-19)
Deep rest and sweet, most like indeed to death's own quietness.
Charmed with the foolish whistling of a name.
The fatal day, th' appointed hour, is come.
He follows his father with unequal steps.
Quisque suos patimur manis. Each of us bears his own Hell.
Go no further down the road of hatred.
Aeneid (-19)
Galatea aims an apple at me, naughty girl,
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
That day I shall always recollect with grief; with reverence also, for the gods so willed it.
Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift, increases with travel and gains strength by its progress.
Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them.
Aeneid (-19)
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