Virgil Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Virgil
A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.) 
Passion and strife bow down the mind. 
Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction 
This, the daughter of Saturn drove over endless oceans Trojans left by the 
Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing. 
Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety. 
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? 
Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.
I shudder when relating 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. 
As a twig is bent the tree inclines. 
Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant. 
Uneven numbers are the gods' delight. 
If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell 
O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men. 
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. 
They can conquer who belive they can. 
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers. 
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. 
Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy. 
Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it. 
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. 
Persistent work triumphs. 
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. 
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly. 
Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is. 
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth. 
Love conquers all things. 
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. 
He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas 
Trust one who has gone through it. 
Want of pluck shows want of blood. 
Veiling truth in mystery. 
Love Conquers All 
A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever. 
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? 
Look with favor upon a bold beginning. 
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. 
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another. 
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. 
If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another. 
Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God. 
Look with favour upon a bold beginning. 
People are able because they think they're able 
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. 
Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable. 
Every man makes a god of his own desire. 
There's a snake lurking in the grass. 
From one learn all. 
Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
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) 
From a single crime know the nation. 
We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it. 
They are able because they think they are able. 
Go forth a conqueror and win great victories. 
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind. 
Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere. 
The Britons are quite separated from all the world. 
Arma virumque cano ... "*Literally: "I sing of arms and man".
I sing the praises of a man's stuggles
Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods? 
Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.