99 Famous Quotes By Virgil, The Author Of The Aeneid
Publius Vergilius Maro, who is referred to as Virgil among English speaking people, was a poet who lived in ancient Rome between 70 BC and 19 BC, during the reign of King Augustus. Virgil is regarded as one of the greatest poets in the Latin language to have ever lived and his poems are still counted among the classics in the language. Virgil is the author of the Latin epic ‘Aeneid’, which is considered among the greatest epics in the Latin language and in addition to that, he penned the Georgics and Eclogues, which are also considered to be major works. Virgil is counted among the greatest poets to have ever emerged from the Roman Empire and rightly so, considering the body of work that he had produced during his career. Virgil’s body of work is not only considered to be the among the finest in Ancient Rome but his work also went on to influence poets who came after him and in fact, Dante’s Divine Comedy was heavily influenced by his work. Here are some of the best quotes by Virgil.
Fortune sides with him who dares.
Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
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Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
The descent into Hell is easy
Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
Death twitches my ear; 'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.
If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
The greatest wealth is health
No day shall erase you from the memory of time
They can because they think they can.
Let me rage before I die.
The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.
Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men
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Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...
Trust one who has gone through it.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day
...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
Each of us bears his own Hell.
Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.
Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.
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Vera incessu patuit dea. (The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
The noblest motive is the public good.
Time is flying never to return.
Death's brother, sleep.
The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies.
Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
