361 Quotes by Virgil

There are twin Gates of Sleep. One, they say, is called the Gate of Horn and it offers easy passage to all true shades. The other glistens with ivory, radiant, flawless, but through it the dead send false dreams up toward the sky. And here Anchises, his vision told in full, escorts his son and Sibyl both and shows them out now through the Ivory Gate.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

Vera incessu patuit dea.(The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)

So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart,He feigned hope in his look, and inwardlyContained his anguish. […]Aeneas, more than any, secretlyMourned for them all

What madness destroyed me and you, Orpheus?

Now, whoever has courage and a strong and collected spirit in his breast, let him come forward, lace on the gloves and put up his hands. (5.363-364)

No other evil we know is faster than Rumor, thriving on speed and becoming stronger by running. Small and timid at first, then borne on a light air, she flits over ground while hiding her head on a cloud-top.

Will Mars be always in your windy tongue and in your flying feet?

Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.