Virgil Quotes

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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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The tale long since was told,
But fame is green, though faith be old.

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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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Learn of your father to be great,
Of others to be fortunate.

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Such hopes I had indeed, while Heaven was kind.

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

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We descend from Jove; in ancestral Jove Troy's sons rejoice.

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As oft, from heaven unfixed, shoot flying stars, And trail their locks behind them.

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Three times they endeavoured to pile Ossa on Pelion, no less, and to roll leafy Olympus on top of Ossa; three times our Father broke up the towering mountains with a thunderbolt.

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Now on a towering arch of waves we rise,
Heaved on the bounding billows, to the skies.
Then, as the roaring surge retreating fell,
We shoot down headlong to the depths of hell.

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And the shore echoes the song of the kingfisher, and the woods echo the song of the goldfinch.

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Let me be suffered to extend
Compassion to a hapless friend.

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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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Nerved by strong courage to defy
The worst, and gain his end or die.

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Each look is pictured in her breast,
Each word: nor passion lets her rest.

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If men and mortal arms ye slight,
Know there are gods who watch o'er right.

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This life the old Sabines knew long ago; Remus knew it, and his brother.

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You have suffered worse things; God will put an end to these also.

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No stranger to trouble myself I am learning to care for the unhappy.

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All, with united force, combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive.

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"Must I die," she said,
"And unreveng'd? 'tis doubly to be dead!
Yet even this death with pleasure I receive:
On any terms, 'tis better than to live."

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Know, first, that heaven, and earth's compacted frame,
And flowing waters, and the starry flame,
And both the radiant lights, one common soul
Inspires and feeds, and animates the whole.
This active mind, infused thro' all the space,
Unites and mingles with the mighty mass.

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Others, I take it, will work better with breathing bronze and draw living faces from marble; others will plead at law with greater eloquence, or measure the pathways of the sky, or forecast the rising stars. Be it your concern, Roman, to rule the nations under law (this is your proper skill) and establish the way of peace; to spare the conquered and put down the mighty from their seat.

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This gift which parents to their children owe,
This unavailing gift, at least, I may bestow!

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