Quotes by Virgil

A fault is fostered by concealment.
– Virgil
A feeble dart short of its mark.
– Virgil
A fickle and capricious woman.
– Virgil
A precious pair of scamps.
– Virgil
A woman the leader of the enterprise.
– Virgil
Alas! it is not well for anyone to be confident when the gods are adverse.
– Virgil
All of which misery I saw, part of which I was.
– Virgil
All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
– Virgil
All things deteriorate in time.
– Virgil
And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle.
– Virgil
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
– Virgil
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
– Virgil
But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
– Virgil
Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
– Virgil
Cares deny all rest to weary limbs.
– Virgil
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
– Virgil
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
– Virgil
Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
– Virgil
Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.
– Virgil
Endure the present, and watch for better things.
– Virgil
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
– Virgil
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
– Virgil
Every man makes a god of his own desire.
– Virgil
Every sound alarms.
– Virgil
Fate will find a way.
– Virgil
Fortune favours the bold.
– Virgil
Fortune helps the bold.
– Virgil
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
– Virgil
From one learn all.
– Virgil
Fury itself supplies arms.
– Virgil
Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
– Virgil
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
– Virgil
Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.
– Virgil
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
– Virgil
Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only knew the pleasures which surround you!
– Virgil
He enters the port with a full sail.
– Virgil
He follows his father with unequal steps.
– Virgil
He follows his father, but with shorter strides.
– Virgil
He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
– Virgil
He subdues their rising passion and soothes their anger by soft remonstrance.
– Virgil
He talks nonsense.
– Virgil
Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood.
– Virgil
Here I am who did the deed.
– Virgil
Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime - turn then your sword on me.
– Virgil
His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
– Virgil
His sickness increases from the remedies applied to cure it.
– Virgil
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
– Virgil
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
– Virgil
I shudder when relating it.
– Virgil
I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.
– Virgil
If I can not influence the gods, I shall move all hell.
– Virgil
If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
– Virgil
If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
– Virgil
Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
– Virgil
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
– Virgil
In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
– Virgil
It is then so sad a thing to die.
– Virgil
Learn now of the treachery of the Greeks, and from one example the character of the nation may be known.
– Virgil
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
– Virgil
Mind moves matter.
– Virgil
Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a chief part.
– Virgil
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
– Virgil
None but himself can be his parallel.
– Virgil
Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.
– Virgil
O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed!
– Virgil
Of such importance is early training.
– Virgil
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
– Virgil
Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief.
– Virgil
Passion and strife bow down the mind.
– Virgil
Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
– Virgil
Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.
– Virgil
Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.
– Virgil
She acquires momentum as she advances.
– Virgil
She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
– Virgil
Tears are due to human misery, and human sufferings touch the mind.
– Virgil
The accursed hunger for gold.
– Virgil
The goddess was discovered by her gait.
– Virgil
The medicine increases the disease.
– Virgil
The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
– Virgil
The rude rabble are enraged; now firebrands and stones fly.
– Virgil
The spirit within nourishes, and mind instilled throughout the living parts activates the whole mass and mingles with the vast frame.
– Virgil
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
– Virgil
Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict.
– Virgil
Their rage supplies them with weapons.
– Virgil
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
– Virgil
They appear but here and there swimming in the vasty deep.
– Virgil
They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence.
– Virgil
They succeed, because they think they can.
– Virgil
This is no time for staring about.
– Virgil
Thus shall you go to the stars.
– Virgil
Time is flying never to return.
– Virgil
Time passes irrevocably.
– Virgil
To have died once is enough.
– Virgil
To prate of peace, and arm your ironsides.
– Virgil
To spare the vanquished, and subdue the proud.
– Virgil
To whisper insidious accusations in the ear of the mob.
– Virgil
Veiling truth in mystery.
– Virgil
Want of pluck shows want of blood.
– Virgil
We can't all do everything.
– Virgil
We have to thank God for this retirement.
– Virgil