Virgil Quotes and Quotation

The Aeneid

• "Fortune favors the brave."

• "Each of us bears his own Hell."

• "It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task."

• "The mad prophetic Sibyl you shall find,
  Dark in a cave, and on a rock reclin'd.
  She sings the fates, and, in her frantic fits,
  The notes and names, inscrib'd, to leafs commits.
  What she commits to leafs, in order laid,
  Before the cavern's entrance are display'd:
  ...many not succeeding, most upbraid
  The madness of the visionary maid,
  And with loud curses leave the mystic shade."
  • Translator: John Dryden

• "Think it not loss of time a while to stay,
  Tho' thy companions chide thy long delay;
  Tho' summon'd to the seas, tho' pleasing gales
  Invite thy course, and stretch thy swelling sails:
  But beg the sacred priestess to relate
  With willing words, and not to write thy fate...
  She shall direct thy course, instruct thy mind,
  And teach thee how the happy shores to find.
  This is what Heav'n allows me to relate:
  Now part in peace; pursue thy better fate, "
  • Translator: John Dryden

• "Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts" (Line 49, Aeneid II)

Attributed:

• "Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious"

• "Look with favour upon a bold beginning"

• "Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love"
  • translated from Latin: "Omnia vincit amor; et nos cedamus amori."
• "O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men"

• "Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art"

• "They can conquer who believe they can"
  • Variant:They can because they think they can.

• "Sing, Muse, the cause!"

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