Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Virgil

Virgil Roman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC)


Virgil - Aeneid
- Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil - Eclogues
- Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

Virgil - Aeneid
- Each of us bears his own Hell.

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- As a twig is bent the tree inclines.

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- They can do all because they think they can.

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- Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.

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- Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

Virgil - Aeneid
- I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Virgil - Eclogues
- A snake lurks in the grass.

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- Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.

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- Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

Virgil - Aeneid
- Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil - The Aeneid
- Trust one who has gone through it.

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- Fortune favors the bold.

Virgil - Aeneid
- Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.

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- They can because they think they can.

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- They are able because they think they are able.

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- They can conquer who believe they can.

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- Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

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- O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

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- In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.

Virgil - Aeneid
- Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

Virgil - Eclogues
- Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.