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Virgil: Quotes

  • Boldness and Enterprise
    Fortune favors the bold.Virgil: Aeneid
  • Confidence
    They can because they think they can.Virgil: Aeneid
  • Endurance
    Whatever it be, every fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.Virgil: Aeneid
  • Gossip and Rumor
    Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly.
    She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion.
    Small at first andin fear, she soon rises to heaven,
    Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.
    Virgil: Aeneid
  • Heaven, Hell, and the Hereafter
    The descent to Avernus is easy.Virgil: Aeneid
  • Love
    Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.Virgil: Eclogues
  • Peoples and Places
    I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.Virgil: Aeneid
  • Time
    Time speeds away irretrievably.Virgil: Georgics