Virgil Quotes

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So strong is custom, such effects can use
In tender souls of pliant plants produce.

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Thus, thus, it is joy to pass to the world below.

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Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil, and want that pinches when life is hard.

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O you who have borne even heavier things, God will grant an end to these too.

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They stood begging to be the first to make the voyage over and they reached out their hands in longing for the further shore.

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Draw Daphnis from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.

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I who once played shepherds' songs and in my brash youth sang of you, O Tityrus, beneath the spreading beech.

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They reach the realms of tranquil bliss.
Green spaces folded in with trees,
A paradise of pleasances.

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The great cycle of the ages is renewed. Now Justice returns, returns the Golden Age; a new generation now descends from on high.

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Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
What will not men to slake such thirst?

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The partial crowd their hopes and fears divide,
And aid, with eager shouts, the favored side.
Cries, murmurs, clamors, with a mixing sound,
From woods to woods, from hills to hills rebound.

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At which my memory with grief recoils.

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Is it then so very wretched a thing to die?

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My chief, let Fate cry on or back,
'Tis ours to follow, nothing slack:
Whatever betide, he only cures
The stroke of Fortune who endures.

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High praises, endless honors, you have won,
And mighty trophies, with your worthy son!
Two gods a silly woman have undone!

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Why thus, unforced, should we so tamely yield,
And, ere the trumpet sounds, resign the field?

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Just so, if one may compare small things with great, an innate love of getting drives these Attic bees each with his own function.

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A sudden madness came down upon the unwary lover [Orpheus] — forgivable, surely, if Death knew how to forgive.

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This to a tyrant master sold
His native land for cursed gold.

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The fields of Neptune take a purple dye.

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If Jove and heaven my just desires deny,
Hell shall the pow'r of heaven and Jove supply.

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O farmers excessively fortunate if only they recognized their blessings!

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So vast was the struggle to found the Roman state.

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I make no distinction between Trojan and Tyrian.

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You, Roman, make your task to rule nations by your government (these shall be your skills), to impose ordered ways upon a state of peace, to spare those who have submitted and to subdue the arrogant.

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Both in the flower of their youth, Arcadians both, and matched and ready alike to start a song and to respond.

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Alas, pitiable boy—if only you might break your cruel fate!—you are to be Marcellus. [People,] give me lilies in armfuls.

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O impotence of man's frail mind
To fate and to the future blind,
Presumptuous and o'erweening still
When Fortune follows at its will!

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The souls that throng the flood
Are those to whom, by Fate, are other bodies owed,
In Lethe's lake they long oblivion taste,
Of future life secure, forgetful of the past.

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Darkling they went under the lonely night through the shadow and through the empty dwellings and unsubstantial realms of Hades.

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