361 Quotes by Virgil

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

If there is any power of righteousness in Heaven, you will drink to the dregs the cup of punishment amid sea rocks and as you suffer cry “Dido” againa and again. Though far, yet I shall be near, haunting you with flames of blackest pitch. And when death’s chill has parted my body from its breath, wherever you go my spectre will be there,. You will have your punishment, you villain. And I shall hear, the news will reach me deep in the world of death.

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour’d sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death’s inexorable doom.

I too am a poet who has found some favour with the Muse. I too have written songs. I too have heard the shepherds call me bard. But I take it from them with a grain of salt: I have the feeling that I cannot yet compare with Varius or Cinna, but cackle like a goose among melodious swans.

Trust not too much to appearances.

The descent into Hell is easy.

It is easy to go down into Hell... ; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub...

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.

Who can blind lover’s eyes?