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Quotes from Aeneid — Virgil

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A greater history opens before my eyes,
A greater task awaits me.

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Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.

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Who knows?
Better times may come to those in pain.

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Friends and companions,
Have we not known hard hours before this?
My men, who have endured still greater dangers,
God will grant us an end to these as well.

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A mind conscious of its own rectitude.

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Fickle and changeable always is woman.

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This man sold his country for gold.

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Every man's last day is fixed.
Lifetimes are brief and not to be regained,
For all mankind. But by their deeds to make
Their fame last: that is labor for the brave.

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Even here, merit will have its true reward...
even here, the world is a world of tears
and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.

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If only Jupiter would give me back
The past years and the man I was...

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So hard and huge a task it was to found the Roman people.

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I shall never deny what you deserve, my queen,
never regret my memories of Dido, not while I
can recall myself and draw the breath of life.

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The leader of the enterprise a woman.

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Following what is decreed by fate.

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Is it then so sad a thing to die?

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O three and four times blessed!

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I cannot bear a mother's tears.

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What a woman can do in frenzy.

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Each of us bears his own Hell.

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I will teach you your destiny.

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