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Quotes by Virgil

Virgil

“From one learn all.”

Virgil

“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 ones steps to the upper air - theres the rub, the task”

Virgil

“If I can not influence the gods, I shall move all hell.”

Virgil

“She acquires momentum as she advances.”

Virgil

“Whither art thou rushing to destruction?”

Virgil

“All our sweetest hours fly fastest.”

Virgil

The greatest wealth is health

Virgil

Death twitches my ear;Live, he says... Im coming.

Virgil

Omnia vincit amor - Love conquers all

Virgil

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...

Virgil

forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day

Virgil

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

Virgil

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Virgil

Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.

Virgil

No day shall erase you from the memory of time

Virgil

Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?

Virgil

Deaths brother, sleep.

Virgil

Facilis descensus Averno:Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;Sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras,Hoc opus, hic labor est.(The gates of Hell are open night and day;Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:But to return, and view the cheerful skies,In this task and mighty labor lies.)

Virgil

The gates of hell are open night and day;Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:But to return, and view the cheerful skies,In this the task and mighty labor lies.

Virgil

Each of us bears his own Hell.

Virgil