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View the list If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first. Best Morning Your. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. Inspirational Quotes by Virgil (Roman Poet) Virgil (70 BCE–19 BCE,) born Publius Vergilius Maro, was a great Roman Latin poet. He set the archetype of a poet for whom poetry is both a way of life and a means for the deepest individual, cultural, and spiritual inquiry. “A person never knows what is next-I don't anyway. The surface of everything is thinner than we know. A person can fall right through, without any warning at all.” ― Leif Enger, Virgil Wander. Important quotes by Virgil in Inferno. Here, Virgil introduces himself to Dante and thus to the reader. He does not give his name, but by his description of himself as a poet who “sang” of the son of Anchises, Dante and the reader know he is Virgil, the author of The Aeneid.
He was regarded by the Romans as their greatest poet.
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Quotations
Tombstone Quotes Virgil Earp
| • | Death twitches my ear. “Live,” he says. “I am coming.” 7 |
| • | 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. 3 |
| • | It is easier to steal the club of Hercules than a line from Homer. 2 |
| • | It is easier to steal the club of Hercules than a line from Homer. 1 |
Latin Quotes
| • | If I cannot sway the heavens, I will raise hell. Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo. 117 |
| • | Fortune favors the bold. Audentes fortuna iuvat. 114 |
| • | Fate will find a way. Fata viam invenient. 109 |
| • | Hard work conquers all. Labor omnia vincit. 75 |
| • | We gather strength as we go. Vires acquirit eundo. 72 |
| • | They can because they think they can. Possunt, quia posse videntur. 72 |
| • | Mind moves matter. Mens agitat molem. 54 |
| • | Love conquers all. Omnia vincit amor. 45 |
| • | Yield not to misfortunes. Ne cede malis. 44 |
| • | Now I know what Love is. Nunc scio quid sit Amor. 43 |
| • | Thus one journeys to the stars. Sic itur ad astra. (i.e. thus one reaches high) 36 |
| • | The gods thought otherwise. Dis aliter visum. 24 |
| • | Woman is ever a fickle and changeable thing. Varium et mutabile semper Femina. 22 |
| • | Let us die, and let us rush into the middle of the battle. Moriamur, et in media arma ruamus. 21 |
| • | Blessed is he who has been able to know the causes of things. Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. 21 |
| • | Be afraid of the Greeks bearing gifts. Timeo Danaos et dona ferrentes. 18 |
| • | Rage supplies arms. Furor arma ministrat. 18 |
| • | There is no security in war. Nulla salus bello. 16 |
| • | We can’t all of us do everything. Non omnia possumus omnes. 15 |
| • | Time flies without return. Fugit inreparabile tempus. 15 |
| • | A woman leads the events. Dux femina facti. (referring to queen Dido, founder of Carthage) 15 |
| • | Love is the same for all. Amor omnibus idem. 11 |
| • | Vice thrives and lives by concealment. Alitur vitium, vivitque tegendo. 9 |
| • | First of all, worship the gods. In primis venerare Deos. 8 |
| • | If we may compare small things with great… Si parva licet componere magnis. 3 |
| • | Arms and the man I sing Arma virumque cano. 1 |
Ancient Greek
| • | Be afraid of the Greeks bearing gifts. Φοβού τους Δαναούς και δώρα φέροντας. 1 |
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The woods, the fountains, and the flow'ry ground:
As you are beauteous, were you half so true,
Here could I live, and love, and die with only you.
Wreak'st not on those of woman born?
Despair and rage had some, but love the greater part.
Her neck refulgent, and disheveled hair,
Which, flowing from her shoulders, reached the ground,
And widely spread ambrosial scents around.
In length of train descends her sweeping gown;
And by her graceful walk the Queen of Love is known.
The secret joys of sweet coition find.
Not only man's imperial race, but they
That wing the liquid air, or swim the sea,
Or haunt the desert, rush into the flame:
For love is lord of all, and is in all the same.
O Rutules! mine is all the blame;
He did no wrong, nor e'er could do;
That sky, those stars attest 'tis true;
Love for his friend too freely shown,
This was his crime, and this alone.
Virgil Quotes On Ranker
And sorrow, mix'd with shame, his soul oppress'd;
And conscious worth lay lab'ring in his thought;
And love by jealousy to madness wrought.