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Virgil Quotes

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.

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Also known as: Bucolics, Publius Vergilius Maro, Publius Virgilius Maro, Vergil, Vergilius, Virgilio

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Indeed, I do not envy your fortune; I rather am surprised at it.

I saw these terrible things,
and took great part in them.

If I can not influence the gods, I shall move all hell.

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

They can because they think they can.

Aeneid (-19)

Alas! it is not well for anyone to be confident when the gods are adverse.

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

Nunc scio quid sit Amor. Now I know what Love is.

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

Aeneid (-19)

Spins round the stirring hand; lose by degrees
Their separate powers the parts, and comes at last
From many several colors one that rules.

Such hopes I had while fortune was kind.

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.

Aeneid (-19)

Vice thrives and lives by concealment.

Georgics (-29)

His cares are eased with intervals of bliss;
His little children, climbing for a kiss,
Welcome their father's late return at night;
His faithful bed is crown'd with chaste delight.

Exert a rigorous sway,
And lop the too luxuriant boughs away.

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

Aeneid (-19)

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.

Aeneid (-19)

A mind conscious of its own rectitude.

Aeneid (-19)

Fickle and changeable always is woman.

Aeneid (-19)

This man sold his country for gold.

Aeneid (-19)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Virgil (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.