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You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento

The accursed hunger for gold.

We are not all able to do all things.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day

Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.

Each man is led by his own liking.

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

Fortune favours the bold.

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

He enters the port with a full sail.

Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.

They are able who think they are able.

A fault is fostered by concealment.

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

That which an enraged woman can accomplish.

There's a snake hidden in the grass. Virgil. Ecologues,no. 3.1.1o8

Fear reveals baseborn souls!

The dewy night unrolls a heaven thickly jewelled with sparkling stars

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

Endure and save yourselves for happier times.

Time flies never to be recalled.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

The medicine increases the disease.

Vera incessu patuit dea.
(The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)

The noblest motive is the public good.

These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

Arma virumque cano ... "
*Literally: "I sing of arms and man".
I sing the praises of a man's stuggles

There's a snake lurking in the grass.

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)

The Britons are quite separated from all the world.

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

They are able because they think they are able.

We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it.

People are able because they think they're able

From a single crime know the nation.

Now, whoever has courage and a strong and collected spirit in his breast, let him come forward, lace on the gloves and put up his hands. (5.363-364)

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

Such words he utters, and sick with deep distress he feigns hope on his face, and keeps his anguish hidden deep in his breast.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.
Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.

Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods?

Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.

Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

From one learn all.

As a twig is bent the tree inclines.

Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

They can conquer who belive they can.

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.

I shudder when relating it.

Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.

This, the daughter of Saturn drove over endless oceans Trojans left by the

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.

Love Conquers All

Veiling truth in mystery.

Want of pluck shows want of blood.

Trust one who has gone through it.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.

Love conquers all things.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

Persistent work triumphs.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.