Top 200 Virgil Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

56. “You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento.”

— Virgil

57. “The medicine increases the disease.”

— Virgil

58. “Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.”

— Virgil

59. “That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.”

— Virgil

60. “Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.”

— Virgil

61. “Then endure for a while, and live for a happier day!”

— Virgil

62. “Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.”

— Virgil

63. “In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?”

— Virgil

64. “Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.”

— Virgil

65. “Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.”

— Virgil

66. “Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

68. “If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.”

— Virgil

69. “Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.”

— Virgil

70. “Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.”

— Virgil

71. “The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.”

— Virgil

72. “Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.”

— Virgil

73. “Ponto nox incubat atra.”

— Virgil

74. “All things deteriorate in time.”

— Virgil

75. “Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

77. “What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?”

— Virgil

78. “I dragged on my ruined life in darkness and grief, wrathful in my heart...”

— Virgil

79. “Roman, remember by your strength to rule Earth’s peoples – for your arts are to be these: To pacify, to impose the rule of law, To spare the conquered, battle down the proud.”

— Virgil

80. “To have died once is enough.”

— Virgil

81. “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...”

— Virgil

82. “Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.”

— Virgil

83. “Mirabile dictu!”

— Virgil

84. “We are not all able to do all things.”

— Virgil

85. “What madness destroyed me and you, Orpheus?”

— Virgil

86. “As a twig is bent the tree inclines.”

— Virgil

87. “It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.”

— Virgil

88. “I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.”

— Virgil

89. “Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.”

— Virgil

90. “That which an enraged woman can accomplish.”

— Virgil

91. “The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.”

— Virgil

92. “O fortunati, quorum iam moenia surgunt!”

— Virgil

93. “Rumor, swiftest of all the evils in the world. She thrives on speed, stronger for every stride, slight with fear at first, soon soaring into the air she treads the ground and hides her head in the clouds.”

— Virgil

94. “No help or hope of help existed.”

— Virgil

95. “Troy has fallen – and fallen let her stay – with the very name of Troy!”

— Virgil

96. “She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.”

— Virgil

97. “Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces.”

— Virgil

98. “Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.”

— Virgil

99. “He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.”

— Virgil

100. “Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.”

— Virgil