Top 180 Virgil Quotes (2023 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

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

10. “Facilis descensus Averni.”

— Virgil

11. “Love conquers all things.”

— Virgil

12. “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

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

— Virgil

14. “Fate will find a way.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

18. “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

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

21. “Amor vincit omnia.”

— Virgil

22. “Thus shall you go to the stars.”

— Virgil

23. “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

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

27. “Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

29. “Time passes irrevocably.”

— Virgil

30. “Trust not too much to appearances.”

— Virgil

31. “The descent into Hell is easy.”

— Virgil

32. “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

33. “Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

35. “Persistent work triumphs.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

42. “Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.”

— Virgil

43. “Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes.”

— Virgil

44. “There’s a snake hidden in the grass.”

— Virgil

45. “Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.”

— Virgil

46. “The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames.”

— Virgil

47. “Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.”

— Virgil

48. “I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

50. “The medicine increases the disease.”

— Virgil