Virgil
Aeneid
Sayings by Virgil
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to scourge us.
I fear the man who has read only one book.
Yield not to misfortunes, but advance more boldly against them.
Let us go where the Fates lead us.
The proper study of mankind is man.
He who is brave is free.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!
Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
Fortune sides with him who dares. / Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
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 the task and mighty labor lies.)
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. / Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
Each of us bears his own Hell.
Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
Fear reveals baseborn souls!
A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.
No other evil we know is faster than Rumor, thriving on speed and becoming stronger by running. Small and timid at first, then borne on a light air, she flits over ground while hiding her head on a cloud-top.
Mind moves matter.