Top 200 Virgil Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Audentes fortuna iuvat.”

— Virgil

2. “The greatest wealth is health.”

— Virgil

3. “If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

5. “Fortune sides with him who dares.”

— Virgil

6. “Time is flying never to return.”

— Virgil

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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.”

— Virgil

8. “Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.”

— Virgil

9. “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.”

— Virgil

10. “Amor vincit omnia.”

— Virgil

11. “They are able who think they are able.”

— Virgil

12. “They can do all because they think they can.”

— Virgil

13. “Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.”

— Virgil

14. “Fate will find a way.”

— Virgil

15. “Facilis descensus Averni.”

— Virgil

16. “Love conquers all things.”

— Virgil

17. “The noblest motive is the public good.”

— Virgil

18. “Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.”

— Virgil

19. “Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.”

— Virgil

20. “Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.”

— Virgil

21. “Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.”

— Virgil

22. “Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps, and come back out into the brightness above, that is the work, that is the labor.”

— Virgil

23. “Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

25. “E pluribus unum – Out of many, one.”

— Virgil

26. “Thus shall you go to the stars.”

— Virgil

27. “Don’t trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.”

— Virgil

28. “Time passes irrevocably.”

— Virgil

29. “Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.”

— Virgil

30. “Omnia vincit amor.”

— Virgil

31. “Live on in your blessings, your destiny’s been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.”

— Virgil

32. “Trust not too much to appearances.”

— Virgil

33. “Trust one who has gone through it.”

— Virgil

34. “They can conquer who believe they can.”

— Virgil

35. “Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven – there is the task, there is the burden.”

— Virgil

36. “Trust the expert. -Experto credite.”

— Virgil

37. “Persistent work triumphs.”

— Virgil

38. “The descent into Hell is easy.”

— Virgil

39. “Omnia vincit amor” – “Love conquers all.”

— Virgil

40. “I recognize the vestiges of an old flame.”

— Virgil

41. “Mind moves matter.”

— Virgil

42. “Look with favor upon a bold beginning.”

— Virgil

43. “Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.”

— Virgil

44. “Death twitches my ear. “Live,” he says. “I am coming.”

— Virgil

45. “May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.”

— Virgil

46. “Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.”

— Virgil

47. “Through chances various, through all vicissitudes, we make our way...”

— Virgil

48. “Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”

— Virgil

49. “Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.”

— Virgil

50. “If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell.”

— Virgil