Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC–19 BC), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic.
Found 30 thoughts of 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.
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Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
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Fortune favors the bold.
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Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
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No stranger to trouble myself, I am learning to care for the unhappy.
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They are able because they think they are able.
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If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
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It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
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Fury itself supplies arms.
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Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
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Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
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Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
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Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.
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Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.
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A snake lurks in the grass.
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In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
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In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.
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Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
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Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.
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As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
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I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
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All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
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Each of us bears his own Hell.
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