361 Quotes by Virgil

The greatest wealth is health.

The grim lioness follows the wolf, the wolf himself the goat, the wanton goat the flowering clover, and Corydon follows you, Alexis. Each is led by his liking.

Time carries all things, even our wits, away.

The seeds of life – fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies’ ills or dulled by earthly limbs and flesh that’s born for death.

Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.

Then, like ravening wolves in a black mist, when the belly’s lawless rage has driven them blindly forth, and their whelps at home await them with thirsty jaws, through swords, through foes we pass to certain death, and hold our way to the city’s heart; black night hovers around with sheltering shade.

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction.

Omnia vincit amor” – “Love conquers all.