Virgil quotes - page 7

Roman, remember by your strength to rule Earth's people-for your arts are to be these: To pacify, to impose the rule of law, To spare the conquered, battle down the proud. (Virgil)
Trust not too much to that enchanting face; Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass.
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How fortunate, both at once! If my songs have any power, the day will never dawn that wipes you from the memory of the ages, not while the house of Aeneas stands by the Capitol's rock unshaken, not while the Roman Father rules the world.
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Trust one who has gone through it.
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I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
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It is come-the last day and inevitable hour for Troy.
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Every man's last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief and not to be regained, For all mankind. But by their deeds to make Their fame last: that is labor for the brave.
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Obscure they went through dreary shades, that led Along the waste dominions of the dead.
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How lucky, if they know their happiness, Are farmers, more than lucky, they for whom, Far from the clash of arms, the earth herself, Most fair in dealing, freely lavishes An easy livelihood.
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By the aid of art.
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I am the poet who once tuned his song On a slender reed and then leaving the woods Compelled the fields to obey the hungry farmer, A pleasing work. But now War's grim and savage ... (Virgil)
Ye realms, yet unrevealed to human sight, Ye gods who rule the regions of the night, Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relate The mystic wonders of your silent state!
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Let my delight be the country, and the running streams amid the dells-may I love the waters and the woods, though I be unknown to fame.
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I shall die unavenged, but I shall die," she says. "Thus, thus, I gladly go below to shadows.
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I have lived and journeyed through the course assigned by fortune. And now my Shade will pass, illustrious, beneath the earth.
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Even here, merit will have its true reward... even here, the world is a world of tears and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.
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Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil, and want that pinches when life is hard.
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Fate withstands.
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Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.
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Wars, horrid wars.
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Euryalus In death went reeling down, And blood streamed on his handsome length, his neck Collapsing let his head fall on his shoulder- As a bright flower cut by a passing plow Will droop and wither slowly, or a poppy Bow its head upon its tired stalk When overborne by a passing rain. (Virgil)
Every field, every tree is now budding; now the woods are green, now the year is at its loveliest.
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Following what is decreed by fate.
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Presence diminishes fame.
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Force finds a way.
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