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Quotes from Georgics — Virgil

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Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil, and want that pinches when life is hard.

Georgics (-29)

Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.

Georgics (-29)

Blessed is he who has been able to win knowledge of the causes of things.

Georgics (-29)

But meanwhile it is flying, irretrievable time is flying.

Georgics (-29)

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live;
But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive:
Discolored sickness, anxious labor, come,
And age, and death's inexorable doom.

Georgics (-29)

O farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear.

Georgics (-29)

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

Georgics (-29)

If we may compare small things with great.

Georgics (-29)

In those days I, Virgil, was nursed of sweet Parthenope, and rejoiced in the arts of inglorious ease.

Georgics (-29)

Let my delight be the country, and the running streams amid the dells—may I love the waters and the woods, though I be unknown to fame.

Georgics (-29)

Vice thrives and lives by concealment.

Georgics (-29)

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)

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

Georgics (-29)

So strong is habit in tender years.

Georgics (-29)

There is no place for death.

Georgics (-29)

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