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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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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.

Aeneid (-19)

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.

Aeneid (-19)

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

Aeneid (-19)

I was astounded, my hair stood on end, and my voice stuck in my throat.

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

Aeneid (-19)

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.

Aeneid (-19)

All of which misery I saw, part of which I was.

The leader of the enterprise a woman.

Aeneid (-19)

Following what is decreed by fate.

Aeneid (-19)

Is it then so sad a thing to die?

Aeneid (-19)

O three and four times blessed!

Aeneid (-19)

I cannot bear a mother's tears.

Aeneid (-19)

What a woman can do in frenzy.

Aeneid (-19)

Each of us bears his own Hell.

Aeneid (-19)

I will teach you your destiny.

Aeneid (-19)

How lucky, if they know their happiness,
Are farmers, more than lucky, they for whom,
Far from the clash of arms, the earth herself,
Most fair in dealing, freely lavishes
An easy livelihood.

Georgics (-29)

I have lived
and journeyed through the course assigned by fortune.
And now my Shade will pass, illustrious,
beneath the earth.

Aeneid (-19)

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

The medicine increases the disease.

The gods also dwelt in the woods.

Attribution

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