Virgil Quotes

Fortune favors the bold.

Love conquers all things.

Aeneas, the hero of heroes.

“Death twitches my ear; ‘Live, for I am coming.’”

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them.

The greatest wealth is health.

Your present indignation, my son, does honor to your courage, but it shows a want of prudence.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Perhaps one day it will be pleasant to remember even these things.

The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way.

Trust one who has tried.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

They are able because they think they are able.

Each of us bears his own hell.

In the sword fight, think nothing other than to kill your enemy and save yourself from death.

When you cannot comprehend how great your glory is, attend to those who fled.

Thus through the open gates night rushes and drives in monstrous shape.

Favor leaves us faster than it came.

Time, the devourer of all things.

All trust is the heritage of all deceit.

Hope on, and save yourself for happy times.

Death in its violence has no part in me; even if Jove himself armed it with his lightning.

So bursts a thunderstorm upon the seething waves of Venus’ sea.

To the lords of storms I entrust my revenge.

Those who approach the gods themselves by any other road, are punished with blindness, and for their audacity they are punished with death.

Virgil Quotes part 2

Wise before the event.

The night itself is not such that I should fear.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live another year.

Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up to and outpace.

The god inside you is stronger than hitting, do not let fear take command.

When you become a stranger to yourself, you might recognize yourself in others and find your home in unfamiliar places.

Believe that you are a path, not a destination.

Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most.

Majesty in women is weakness and disgrace.

Time is nothing: it rolls its onward course, its race is rapid: hours are flying, mid the seasons mingling, and the present soon becoming past; the past then speeds, convolving like a river to immerse in everlasting seas.

They can conquer who believe they can.

His tears supply the solemnity and pathos, while his verse gives to its prayer-like language that fulness of sound without which its imagery would with difficulty be supported.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Bear up, my noble youth, bear up, and press forward. Fortune still remains downcast and clad in storm clouds.

Reverence the gods, but do not rely too much upon their help.

They are able because they think they are able.

Your enemy is never going to tell you the truth.

For fate steals on with silent foot and takes men unaware.

It is not possible to be both just and unjust at the same time.

There is no glory in practice, but without practice there is no glory.

The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one.

They succeed because they think they can.

Seek not to tell thy griefs to deaf and pityless ears, but to a friend.

We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.